I went to the deck and wrote, “Not a bad ship,” on the curtains of the restaurant. It had been raining all night, and my…
It’s a squeeze onto the ships; there are arms and legs everywhere. The queues at the bars are eight deep, and there’re whole families shouting…
there was a heat wave one summer and things were frying outside people feared the air spread cureless fever and bolted their doors one night…
i looked through my bedroom window and thought ‘machiavelli’ and i whispered ‘machiavelli’ then swallowed and felt ambivalent i pictured myself dressing and walking in…
A friend of mine told me a story about her twin sister Mary, who was over- weight. She went to see her family doctor. He…
I am a history professor. Last night I had a strange dream. The government had invented a time machine, but there was a problem—it could…
be constantly shuffling stacks of papers, but never the first or last to leave a place. happen. fill your studio apartment with used books that…
for a. toliver the flowers are wilting. the rosemary wears anger like a leather jacket. i dream: i wake up with jesus, a phone ringing…
The way the women fight for your bed here. Barter for the bed and the mandrakes, the favor of the Lord. The way the sun…
It was not a diet; it was better than a diet. Instead of altering his food intake or spending his lunch breaks on a tread-…