the midtown color palette is restricted to blue and whitewith the intensity of an in-flight magazine asphalt laughterdon’t-worry cleavage she’s too old for pigtails but keeps a firm grip on her email leaning out a window, comb forward and spray the thinner the heel, the less she eatsbuys another cool latte for the homeless
it feels like a day other than today
this is the shape i’d like to be: indented. a few spaces in from the vertical drop of line after line of conversation. whatever possessed me to think i could fight obsession with obsession, to treat things i’d rather not think about like they were my muse? positively foolish. more ever than angry. maybe there’s… Continue reading it feels like a day other than today
approximately american, v1
my arms taste salty, there’s no escaping the humid drip of a summer afternoon. what better lunch could i offer myself than a refreshing peanut butter and jelly sandwich? as a child i wanted my mother to make them for me, just like all my american friends’ moms did. in our house, as in all… Continue reading approximately american, v1
<160 elegant
i can’t help but make an equationtry to prove my body equal to hers –math gets fuzzy when you’re counting skinthe problem is so thick i only get partial credit
<160 Freestyle. that was a good documentary.
straight off the head and undirected –don’t need a book or explanation:a story plants a seed of everlastingonce upon my time there was a princess of distortion
<160 good-bye party
after six vodka and sodas, i could hardly look at water.no, thank you. none for me. that was a mistake.woke up at 4.32am, thirsty.
<160 new wife
lie down beside you & give a bruise to my foreheadthe light gauze of a mosquito net not romance, but necessity.“querido” three hard consonants make a soft word * in the morning i feel awkward leaving the sheets in a muss,have to be told several times the maid will take care of it.will she read… Continue reading <160 new wife
warehouse wines & spirits, 10003 (v2)
friday evening. crowd at the liquor store.with an armful of bottles she walked, all round and royal, to the checkout.maybe she’s having a dinner party, soon she’d be among friends and raising glasses.the bottle closest to me was priced $2.99, that one would be her cooking wine, poured over beef and flavored with star anise,… Continue reading warehouse wines & spirits, 10003 (v2)
warehouse wines & spirits, 10003 (v1)
she waddled over to the checkout line labelled CREDIT CARD ONLY with her three bottles.“these are all red, right?” she asked the cashier, who held them up to the fluorescent light to check. it’s strange that a mistake in color can amount to a completely different taste. the price tag on one of her bottles… Continue reading warehouse wines & spirits, 10003 (v1)
clarity vs richness
brown shoes.brown socks, inappropriate for summer.brown pants.brown hair, warming up in the sun. do you find that writing by hand helps? the society of outdoor cafe #777 organizes itself into ones and twos. children attached to these groupings may number from 0 to n, however they are not counted. i am so proud that my brother… Continue reading clarity vs richness