“Let’s see it,” I said the day after my student got his first tattoo. It was a nice grisly tattoo, suggesting to the viewer that death was not to be feared, though when I looked at it, lo, I felt fearful. “It hurt right here,” he said. “This part didn’t hurt. Look how it’s shaded.” […]
Read More offering“Maybe everything isn’t a clue.” – Hua Hsu, Stay True “I’m going to try to make meaning by connecting some unrelated things,” I say as we stand by the car. A friend’s mother goes to the ER. On my couch, my niece crumples with anxiety and panic raging from nowhere. I order coffee and then […]
Read More No clueEvery viewer’s glee at Godzilla’s swipe The Fight Club credit card towers, Hold hands and swing the bridge Whomever you caught Sift their contents until powdered Build it up with silver and gold Silver and gold Silver and gold Soup cans for needy barrels, Glass candlesticks at the Goodwill, Cerebral fluid leak, see Dr. Google […]
Read More london bridge is falling downLittle boy blue Come blow your horn The sheep’s in the meadow The cow’s in the corn Where is the boy who looks after the sheep? He’s under a haystack, fast asleep This one I typed from memory, suprising myself. I’ve been crabby, and I’m away from home, a place of horns (historically), primarily Charlie […]
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