I'm. But I'm supposed— I have to— 082313 #gull i'm gonna say that again: you can't empty the trash while you watch. it won't let you. 110812 #copperhead I have just eight words for you, buddy. But I can't remember what they are now. 081413 #worm Geprorogo: Yeah, it was the Check Out My Neanderthalic Bony Ridge Above My Eyebrows show. 120702 #finch Women: if young, plump or cruel; if older, trashy and well oiled. Men: tragic 120413 #trout She didn't have no perfume, so she just dabbed a little vanilla extract under each arm. 111813 #trout a school bus by the side of the road, a handful of people standing around beside it 041713 #treefrog Show a movie, hand out a worksheet. That's what I do. I'm a professional at that. 080613 #haircut All is forgiven. A sudden, almost arbitrary refresh. A new start out of the blue. 000001 #human And so I take up my place in the middle, once again, which is merely the edge of the edge. 081313 #copperhead If I know so much about canoes, why did I sound so retarded about them in (1)? 081013 #dog *Poems don't write themselves, you know. Just don't ever leave me.* HIM: *I won't.* 122413 #tinker The bricks aren't the chapel but the bricklayer's love of bricks can be just as spiritual. 000002 #human THAT is how Sruky taught me about dream travel. Because I imagined it. And I did it. 022813 finch you've been in the audience you've been on the boards terrified? there is no division 081413 #worm Oh all right! Me exclaims. All bloody fucking fuck-all right! Let's go. Damn you. 091313 #trout Around the stupid stick now protruding from my gay-ass mouth, I mutter, Got a light? 010614 #bushmill Sit up, Mel says. I obey. Undo his belt, Mel says. I obey. Unbutton his jeans, Mel says. Pete's standing there looking kind of amused, one hand, the one with the watch, on his hip. I obey. 120012 #treefrog #fox It's time to go ahead and get out there and get made fun of. There's a reason the word "fun" is in that, after all. Strength in gentleness; gentleness is strength. Clues are everywhere. 090913 #vulture Dreams come early and they early go (how many millions of eyes you've avoided today) 000001 #human and you wonder whether she's lying or not but but but why would she and does it matter? 081413 #worm What the fuck are you talking about? demands the Snoke, sideways through an amber glass. 081413 #worm Me looks up sharply. His eyes are viridian iridium. I had a vision of you once, he says. 000001 #human Ta daaaaah. THE TV just said "sometimes, to find yourself, you have to go to extremes." 080613 #wheelbarrow full of bricks (or rocks) -- every rock may be the perfect rock for some spot 081413 #copperhead "I'm really getting sick of this stuff," he says, face thoughtful as he chews. 082513 #gull You'd better let your poetry be accidental, and your stories, if anything, intentional. 081613 #worm What would you do, you repeat, putting on your best philosophical swagger, if I told you, you pause, I love you. Thank bajeezus for the echo machine love you. love you. love you. love you 081313 #copperhead We are imperceptible pulses in a slender layer between two edges—between a lump of aggregated stellar dust and the unavoidable shoulder-shrugging nothingness of everything else. 120913 #mistress #bunny His jaw was loose, his breathing the only motion he was willing to risk. 111513 #storyteller Are you telling the story or are you saying, "Can you not see that I am a genius?" 082713 #finch and that girl over there on her cel phone is wearing the worst possible hat 050004 #human A large part of "getting" the drum to sound how you want it to, is really WANTING it to! 000096 #human and you wonder whether you're lying or not and why would you and does it matter, right? 010614 #bushmill Another hit. Another hit. Okay, that should be fine for a while. Another hit. 081613 #worm I'm trying to (shift, ker-chunk, into a stateless state called the present) make myself pretend that I'm either lonely or else a retard, so that maybe I can get a fucking cup of tea around here! 081413 #worm It is dark, but not totally. The ladder ends at the floor of a wet stone corridor. 112113 #zee she makes you think she's on your side yes and... she's beautiful but sometimes she lies 081013 #dog How about I give you permission to do anything you want—to, with, or regardless of me, and you give me permission to do the same, just for one hour, and we'll see what interesting things happen. 081413 #copperhead "So there's a low-level horniness building, and you're not sure what to do with it." 081613 #worm How you doin, there, babe? asks 1 in his most ingratiating. Yeah, I think, trust your instincts there, 1, and I wonder if that little rule of thumb still works if you're an asshole. Probably-- 081613 #worm Another tea party, so soon after the last? Where are my manors. Oh well, okay. Here we go. 000012 #treefrog telling that one girl to take care of business because her baby was counting on her 081413 #worm Had they ever had shoes? If so, remove them. Picture the perfect shapes of their bare feet, stepping like farmers' grandsons at the cattle auction, through the glassine puddles of the muddy lot. 010114 #robot type mismatch on your aspirational entertainment. TV is designed for mythical middle class. 081313 #copperhead Your body heaves like a bulldog against a leash; the beached vessel roughly nudges. 000001 #eel it's called a she-stone. It's as hard as a diamond. The greek lady only knows of eight people who have them. It is the best stone for writing in the sand, because it knows what you have loved. 082413 #gull Open up the message box. Ask yourself this question: What is the next word in this sequence? 090913 #roach Esriel's Cafe, gold o'clock of the morning, How we fish through the lives of commoners 081413 #worm Well, what is it then? Speak your mind, boy, even though your voice shakes. Her hair laughed. 081313 #copperhead The rain drops continue to pummel and pelt. Some of them mingle with what's left of our sweat, curl off the ends of our noses and plunge into our mouths if we open them to speak. 081413 #worm The blond-haired boy is walking up and down his makeshift stage, saying, Do you want to die? 000002 #human as far as war goes: did you ever kill a fly? did you ever want to go one step further? 082813 #gull Sometimes the only way you can get a really good ass-fucking is to fuck an ass yourself. 102513 #ass When I come in yours check, I also cone on your wife 081713 I liked you until I knew you were somebody. I liked your writing until I got to the part that was actually supposed to be writing. 072102 #eel I was typing this, getting this all down, on loose pages fallen from an old road atlas: 010001 #eel soon to be there for us all or here in blood [(location, situation, time--)invented] 081613 #worm I remember like seven minutes ago when I started this thing. Ah, what a long strange 100004 #human This world and the next are littered with dead geniuses. Be glad you're not one of them. 042813 #human Celi has a new little friend from across the field: Lulu. Hilarious name, real person. 101112 #human It's just that there's a voice, another voice, a warm voice that I know I've heard before, perhaps beside a campfire, saying, go ahead. If you don't like it you can leave. There is no shame. 000002 #human i hope what we were groping at in seventh grade has stood you in good stead, my friend 032812 #human #crow YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS. Just STARTING the impossible task makes it possible. 080913 #mrgrenache #squirrel i know that it makes you feel funny and it makes other people feel funny too when i am with them.... i don't know... it's not like i don't want to, it just doesn't happen... 081413 #worm You haven't been to the snoke for a while. Some things have changed. Some things have not. 120912 #human And so here I am. I don't want to be alone. I just don't know what else I do want to be. 011214 #trout Aren't you supposed to like not eat too much if you haven't had any food for a long time? 121313 #human Libby & Celi are running around like mad mice, heelariously giggling and flopping about. 082613 #crow You fucking genius, you've pretended so good you don't even know you're pretending anymore! 082713 #crow we don't stand a chance, and yet we win. isn't that basically how the story always goes? 052605 #squirrel Pretty soon its going to be time to grow again, so I am trying to enjoy the moment. 092813 #gull There is nothing realistic about any kind of fiction . So don't sweat it. Just write it. #neighbor He seemed like a complete jerk, but he's the one who helped the crying kid down out of the tree. 120309 #treefrog This job is breaking my heart, and it's about god damned time that fucker got broke. 081613 #worm I'm glad you could come, I say to the social worker. The social worker nods like a banana. 091413 #trout It's ridiculous, but he just keeps thinking how much heavier the real handgun is than a toy. 081213 #conferenceofthecrows an empty heart and a haunted path what i mistook for empty was being overfull 082713 #crow 042404 the best thing i ever did (on acid) was staring down that guy (those guys) in the Ynot. 081613 #worm Ha ha. What? Well, I was just going to say, just wait and see. But then that would kinda be simultaneously proving and subverting my own point, wouldn't it? Sure, Milt. Sure it would. 062510 #human Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck. Note: these are not angry fucks. 000096 #squirrel what does it take for you to want to touch someone like that i mean what has to happen 112313 #fox #icoul #gull #controlroom Trust your typos. [ios in particular has some rely good ones.] 101513 #trout #crow Would you choose death or would you relinquish the privacy of your own thoughts? 081013 #dog GHOST: So. You got any advice for me? HIM: Yep. ME: Don't be so dependent on the sequential. 081313 #copperhead Is the river even the river anymore? Have they digitized it? Do they know the fear of the limestone and granite? Can they feel the massaging punishment of rock against bare sole? 081013 #dog You know? Sometimes I get the feeling we're long since dead, and our only existence as ourselves any more is being read off a screen or a page by someone else, some long time away from now. 000012 #meerkat stepping away from the computer, going outside, and pulling the kids around in the wagon 081413 #worm Success, Bnabe says, to the extent there is such a thing, is measured by how much you give away. 081413 #worm The blond boy laughs once, out of time. Poison ivy creeps along beside the trio as they walk. 090813 #worm Perched on my dresser is a man with almost-closed eyes going through some T'ai Chi movements. 083013 #treefrog Sunday, March 21, 2010 The utter depression of a Sunday ebbing fast tastes like smoke. 051706 #squirrel It's in that place, that Omaha, that nightlit place of coffee tables boots, parenthesis and mud, that I can call you brother, and see that you can hear me 081613 #worm Protein!, hollers Milt, pounding ham fists, and the irony, if not lost, is at least fucked. 082713 #human AND I DO. What if I could express myself that way just by going around everywhere, even in the "normal" world? Who would I be then? I'd be the guy from my dream. That's who. AND I AM. 130250 012114 #human Ooh, ooh ooh! I just found a rootbeer barrel among all the boring old jolly ranchers in my vest pocket. Ex-*quis*-ite! I ask again: *How should I be spending my time?* 131343 000000 #bunny hey bnabe. i'm listening. to the fiddles and the fiddles and the fiddles and the one drum. 082413 #human something's just not working tonight. what is it? answer that and you'll have answered that 071112 #human YOU'RE REALLY YOUNG AGAIN. How many people get to experience that? You lucky son of a bitch. 120613 #human #ostlergundegoot #seeker I love being anonymous in public places with nothing much to do. 082813 #2005 051605 It's time to start praying in earnest for my babies. Anh's having problems. I need help. 112013 #wirydog lifting slowly his aged, knotty head from the porch remembering when things weren't this way 080913 #stargazer #squirrel How you curve space in a round, rough, peculiar way that no one else can do. 081613 #worm What the fuck else am I going to do? Not play video games. I've already done that, motherfucker. 102913 #snail He laughs casually but not cruelly, you think, and that makes it all right for the moment. 081413 #worm Krim smiles, kisses her with generous, cruel red lips. I'm glad we had this little talk. 081413 #worm Krim sits on Ltiky's wife's back porch, alone in a gouache of alley-gravel gray, lucent-leaf green, and comfortable, cozy, decaying-brick red. She smokes, and mentally constructs a chart. 050900 #human so this is what it's like to be in a journal and hit the space bar with your left thumb. 010314 #jonquil There was a noise in the hallway that broke the spell. Mary pulled her arm away and slid her sleeves back down. She waved her black-painted fingernails in the air like a magician. 081413 #worm Lighting up his last cigarette for her, he lays it all on the line. I'm going to die, he says. 102813 #illusionist He's really quite a gentle, kind fellow, underneath his rough, scrappy doglike exterior. 000001 #human #roach and the running lights are on, the one a lost, blue cafe, the other a crimson dirge. 000002 #human bullshit needs to get all said perfectly in a single night, work there is always plenty of. 112413 #finch One dirty rectangle high on a dark door: warm sun 050603 #human It's not French, but it sure as fuck feels like it. It's so smoky in here you can see God. 090613 #treefrog Cheerleaders on game day--in the hall, in the cafeteria--are like another kind of cops. 111813 #controlroom the old wurlitzer, sharp as cheddar, long knobby fingers banging out sharply angled chords 081413 #worm There is nothing like an underaged half-nude peasant-girl barmaid to lift your spirits when you're a hyperdimensional abstract entity more defined by what you aren't than by what you are. 080913 #soldier a little grease on threads of various knobs and screws light oil on various moving parts 111813 #meerkat #thekeyto brady street is two girls walking, one puts her arm over the other's shoulder 121913 #fox Edna obrien is a little like me but with less apparent wallowing and waxing in self-judgment. 010614 #roach But you—you said you didn't want to! Well, would it have been so fucking hard to *force me?* 082813 #crow 060605 It's okay to make a fool of yourself. At least you will have made SOMETHING of yourself. 112813 #human I'd call you if I thought I could stomach the fake drawl that I know would come up in my voice. 000096 #human You paint in negatives. By simply not saying what you don't see, you eventually say what you see. 081413 #worm Sigh. One more smoke and then I go. But I'll need about a thousand more to be caught up with today. 010003 #human I don't feel like this, I do feel like that, it's almost as if, no it is, it is, and did I mention, I'm gay! I'm gay! I'm gay! I'm gay! I'm gay! I'm gay! I'm gay! I'm gay! I'm gay! 040003 #human the things a baby does that are amazing aren't the same things that a grownup does that are amazing. 080013 #human The girls are out back eating pizza, seeing each other, exchanging information at a galloping rate. 081013 #dog HIM: What the hell is the point of this? This is stupid. But HER has a strange look on her face. 081413 #worm Sometimes, the Aviary stretches back and says, Sometimes what you think is empty, is being overfull. 081013 #dog *HIM and ME are having another Martian conversation, or perhaps they are continuing their last one.* 081613 #worm I eat my pizza. The anchovies taste like Paris, France, and the pickle-loaf smells like cheese. 081413 #worm What about old Jelse? A space is made for him at the fire ring. It is the space the smoke goes to. 101913 #eel He is reassured by his inability to see the pool area behind the condensation on the glass door. 091313 #crow What do I have to offer this world? What can I say for myself? What do I have to show for my money? 000001 #human The unanalyzed life is worth living; it gives the people who like to analyze lives something to do. 041897 #eel I had the sense that I was trying to get back somewhere, and there were a lot of big grey oak trees. 081613 #worm You can't smoke in here, she suggests, but he does anyway, so she decides to roll one up herself. 081013 #dog SUPERNIGGER: [advancing towards ME with a menace few white people can muster] Fucking faggit . . . . 010314 #warmglowbox What are you putting in the box? Freighted long-distance flirtation games with an old lover. 081013 #dog *A skillfully hand-painted sign in the lower left corner of the front window says, "It is raining."* 081613 #worm He looks at me as if reevaluating the past twenty years. He glowers. I'll ask the questions here. 092959 #human #fox #max Libby: Megan said I stink! ++and she was really upset about it++ (Go into heartbreak) 080613 #wheelbarrow what you can see and touch and carry and build with, after the illusion has been dispelled 081313 #copperhead Whatever. He has a strong back, at least. He can hold his own paddling, that's for sure. 081613 #worm I am looking at a savage mind grown bookish with fatigue and leisure. I am looking at my knees. 082713 #finch don't haf to do art. sit here; be a painting, the word is the thing, smoke and sit here be 223436 011914 #robot #trout Wait a sec, I'll be right back. I have to check something. *And then he was gone.* 110913 #snail Experience of finding the cabin and seeing everything that her aunt and uncle had kept in there. 081613 #worm It's the rhythm of a train, and I like it. This ride is only just begun. Utter and complete dernt. 000003 #human What's that word for a point that's nowhere on the line between points A and B? That word's me. 081413 #worm There have been some things to sort out, naturally. Like whose eyes are allowed to say what, when. 102913 #snail #featherwoman You looked old, as soon as you got up close where I could see your actual face. 081413 #worm Whose? he gasps, as he laps at the silvery, slick moisture flowing backwards into his hungry mouth. 120813 #human #serpent Once you start eating snacks after bedtime, you want to keep eating snacks after bedtime. 090813 #trout He grew serious. More serious than a man talking about boning his old lady ought to be, honestly. 081413 #worm By the time the tops of the pines get licked with frost, the little willow-haired girl will be crying. 081413 #worm Here comes the pause. The pause sits in the corridor with them, dripping, interminable, unloveable. 081113 #dog *HIM is silent. Anyone who knows him at all could see he is visibly stunned but trying to hide it.* 020003 #human It's like, I try so hard not to sound as dumb as I have in the past, and I end up sounding dumber. 000002 #human #meerkat Narrow disappearing staircase to bedrooms of mystery and someone else's life upstairs. 082113 #meerkat stretch your back. breathe out. breathe in the beauty of something. be crooked by the bank of a river 082613 #crow 111103 Honesty and dishonesty both sources of (different kinds of) pain. Non-contact only is non-pain. 081413 #worm I wish I were a girl, young Hanad thinks. A million litiginous inner voices holler, Why? Defend yourself! 081313 #copperhead Of course they do, you fool. I laugh at myself, thank God. One has to laugh at oneself, right? 120813 #robot #textwrangler I wish there were some way I could give TextWrangler its own species. I love it so much. 081713 #cave what does water taste like thought ‘i love you' thank you for making me think something different 040003 #human There's got to be some way out of this cycle! he cries, staring at the way out of this cycle! he cries, 091602 #eel The mother notices the daughter's behavior the most, but is not able or willing to do much about it. 021296 #human sometimes i go around the house thinking "I CAN'T, I CAN'T, I CAN'T..." and I don't even know it! 030004 #human is it ever difficult, to be so beautiful? she changes her mind and sits at the other side of the table. 101313 #dolphin The healing process is rapid and even very deep wounds do not cause dolphins to hemorrhage to death. 040513 #spoonman What else? Taught me writing is kind of hard, in a way. And kind of real easy in a lot of other ways. 081413 #worm You and I are child friends, though we never got the chance to know it. How did you come to be here, then? 081413 #worm Sounds delicious. Yes, I'm coming. Thank you for inviting me. Maybe there's some hope for you boys yet. 081413 #worm So when I sweat, I could get that sheen, that glow. Run your hands over me there, and there.... 081013 #dog ME: I want to type and smoke, smoke and type. GUY: I think the problem here is that i'm facing backwards. 010414 #warmglowbox What are you putting into the box? The need to be a special tortured rockstar starving artist! 081613 #worm Put enough barbecue sauce on this shit, and it's almost as good as eating a pile of shit! 2 declares. Maybe you could label the txt files later, since we're coming at it a whole different way now. #spaceship2.0 #gull 082713 #gull what's the social and political context of all this? Fuck i don't know. Take a class or something. Shit. 081413 #worm #roach He already knows the answer. He coaxes the old car around the corner, out of sight of the cafe. 081413 #worm Later, only the little blond boy comes back. He stares through the window. Me roars: Do you want to die? 081613 #worm I'm too untalented not to resort to metafictional porn; if that's a problem for you, just consider this: 082313 #meerkat dude, i just realized that the names in the untitled ƒolder are parasitic revolution album names! 081413 #worm Geprorogo begins to pedal furiously on the exercise bike. But he's not going anywhere! He pedals harder. 072102 #eel Shane sneaks out and goes down the wet hill. He gets into a row boat and glides out across dark water. 081413 #worm She moves in close. The embrace liquefies any remaining doubts. Ltiky is utterly, stupidly again, hers. 112013 #meerkat Come back to this later, and see if you know what I'm talking about. *Months later, the king sang* 000096 #human she talks about herself a lot in a manner that could be called confident but i don't think really is. 081613 #worm The corn-colored sun slants through a leaf umbrella. Afternoon drips down upon us. We talk and chew. 081213 #conferenceofthecrows snow blind white river slanting rays inarticulate speech what a blade feels like 081613 #worm So he plugged the power adapter into the wall before plugging it into the laptop, and the thing fired up. 082313 #dumanstupid is basically the guy who is made up of all the life goo that didn't quite coalesce into anybody else 121913 #fox The problem with taking too long to write a story is, you start to realize too soon what it's about. 090813 #elephant Thong bikini almost obscured by plenty flesh. Fat and sassy. Wide ass oiled up good. Sandalwood. 121313 #human Celi, playing pet shops with Libby: Who wants to go shopping, but I'm stuck inside my own shopping bag!! 000002 #human #crow I've drunk my own piss to prepare me, make me strong. little do i know how little i've drunk 081413 #worm The Aviary screams like a little girl past the point of no return. Me looks at her. Yes, yes. Of course. 082613 #elephant The cock lock makes me a comic book super hero. * With a great weakness in place of a great strength 000096 #human our grandparents like us, but they don't quite understand us because they didn't have Reddi-Whip. 102194 #eel i hope susan had a good dream last night too. i hope she found someone to buy tequila for her boy friend. 081013 #dog *And they were back together again, for a time. Who knows how long. Who knows how long. Who knows how long.* 081013 #dog I know we haven't jitterbugged much lately, but I thought it worth asking anyway: can you give up today or not? 081313 #copperhead Just enough coffee spills; just one elongated blob slips over the lip of my mug. A universe implodes. 111413 #meerkat Go back over what you've written already and change a decision; turn a character's yes to no, or vice versa. 081613 #worm Did you want to work on anything in particular? the social worker asks. He's a business man, too, after all. 081413 #worm Well, can we fix it? asks the Captain brightly, her sexy dolphin eyes flashing. Yes. Please. Yes, thank you. 090913 #human People who say your look defines you aren't expressing the bigger picture. You define your look. Your energetic, unabashed manifestation legitimizes whatever you happen to look like. 041812 #martian - tired - still up - don't want to go to bed & work tomorrow, but the chilling anxiety kills my neck 000002 #human I don't care what anybody said; I like semicolons and I like flavored coffee. At least some of the time. 000001 #human You? why would you want to be famous? the more worshipped you are, the less you can trust the worshippers. 081413 #worm Him tries not to look smug. He always wins this game. Krim comes back with the sweatshirt and the thermos. 032704 #squirrel To:   Zaiah 1820 Miles Away Date:   Mar 27 5:01pm Subject:   thanks for the woo 121513 #human #captainblackie Sometimes your kids don't want you to solve their problems they just want you to listen 081013 #dog *The pipe's cashed, and yet it's not. This is a new experience for ME. He's not sure he likes it. And yet –* 112413 #human Even though I used to fall asleep to Beethoven in the basement bedroom, it still brings warm tingly memories. 061307 #eel you pushed my head down, waited until I looked up at you, and spat right in my face with a disgusted sound. 081413 #worm Laughter tumbles down under the ground. Sparks go up to the stars. In between, it's just the bareass beach. 081413 #worm Me smokes, smokes, smokes as though he had never tried to quit, and drinks, drinks, drinks. The fire grows. 082713 #crow 022804 One of the cooler things my dad relayed to me: you should always quit while you still have something to 111213 #snail Who invented the idea of not having anything to say but feeling as if you were supposed to say something? 010314 #jonquil Okay, dear. The rich girl's mom gave an indulgent half laugh, and got on with watering her clematis. 032804 #squirrel Enjoy your time away! The window to the world can also be such a heavy thing to carry around with you. 120613 #treefrog #trout She's that creepy chick who walks around with headphones on all day. I've seen her in the halls. 081413 #worm Whatever. Ella tosses the trout over her shoulder, into the springs below. What did you want to learn from me? 081413 #copperhead "Hey," he says. "We should totally paddle in the rain. Let's pack up and go now, before it stops." 081313 #copperhead To my left, the direction from which he should be coming. To my right, across the modest channel, an overhanging clump of the kind of vegetation that screams, SNAKES!!!, and then 081013 #dog ME: Let's search for another! HIM: Agreed! You get the flashlight and I'll get the hooch. *They search.* 111813 #thirteenstones celi drew a picture of them without even knowing what they were or that they had ever existed for me 120913 #human Who invented the idea of not having anything to say but feeling as if you were supposed to say something? 090813 #worm How long does it take when you're the softest thing in the world and there are so many so many bulldozers 011814 #robot that's beast, dog. Rewrote my AppleScript apps to pop into the proper VP doc even if the thing's not running. 030004 #human I sure like it when a hot girl ganks onto my hair and forces my mouth down over a hot dildo. Don't you? 110813 #human #treefrog Why oh fucking *why* does Ervin have to talk like a fucking carnival barker all the damn time? 051111 #martian - Go with God. - Mr. Hanyard said, "All we can do is the best we can do." - Cannot mount /dev/loop0 081413 #copperhead Everything is dirty here. You would not go swimming here. There is nothing human about this place. 081413 #copperhead It was a statement, not a question, so I know I don't really have to answer it, but on the other hand— 102912 #human The edge of the edge of the hurricane brings some halloween rain outside the chilly window glowing ghost 010614 #bushmill Okay, Pete, where do you want to go? Shit I don't know. Just, fuck, I dont know, away from here. 080913 #lovers #squirrel I hope all is well with your massage, your life, your dog... Know I'll be thinking of you while trying to keep warm. Know that thinking of you helps. I'll talk to you soon. 081613 #worm Smoke, smoke, smoke. There'll be time to tune into the conversat-i-on, a little later. Right now, I hafta piss. 000002 #human if there is one door in this castle I haven't gone through, can you find it? the rest is all smoke smoke smoke 082813 #trout How small and translucent he looked, sitting there while everyone peppered him with peevish encouragements. 032413 #maelstrom I should be honored, I must be pretty capable and important, to warrant this kind of an all-out attack. 091313 #finch discovering gravity; the fine points of a liquidambar leaf skittering over time-bleached asphalt.