30/30 Day 9 |
PassoverThere is no archaeological evidencethat the Jews were ever in Egypt.Nor is their evidence of any large mass of people swellingor deflating a neighboring population in their exodus.So what of t...
Posted by on Fri, 10 Apr 2009 08:20:00 GMT |
30/30 Day 8 |
Memorandomsometimes you forget that you live in a cityother people write love poems to.sometimes you forget that you sit at this samegod damn bar every week and talk shitsometimes times your clothes d...
Posted by on Fri, 10 Apr 2009 08:18:00 GMT |
30/30 Day 6 |
San Fernando Valley, 1994You know all this:Check the exits. Keep a good pair of shoes near the bed. Never hang anything heavy on the wall above your head. Forgo brick buildings and ground floor apartm...
Posted by on Fri, 10 Apr 2009 08:16:00 GMT |
30/30 Day 7 |
I burned a gash in my forearmas big as my palm. Burned itwith a hot pan from the oventhat slid out of my grip. It tookmy skin off like practice, like thetop four layers had been waiting for their chan...
Posted by on Fri, 10 Apr 2009 08:16:00 GMT |
30/30 Day 5 |
Catching up with my posting...yes.we were 17when I took your first kiss,taught your fingers the warm tightof a woman, or a girl perhaps.17 when I was so perfectand you were so new,and love was somethi...
Posted by on Fri, 10 Apr 2009 08:14:00 GMT |
30/30: Day 4 |
Remembering My Place1.Ant colonies that invade a colony of another ant speciesturn their captives into slaves. The conquest can last until the losers die off. Or sometimes, the larvae of the conquers ...
Posted by on Sat, 04 Apr 2009 19:40:00 GMT |
30/30: Day 3 |
In Which We Call Upon Tycho BraheTell them about your pet moose who got so drunk at your party it fell down the stairs and broke its foreleg.Tell them about the instruments.Tell them about the nights...
Posted by on Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:38:00 GMT |
30/30: Day 2 |
The Bravest Thing I Know A PantoumThis is the bravest thing I know:My high school physics teacher with a medical condition is all we can focus on.The condition gives him a permanent boner.My high s...
Posted by on Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:36:00 GMT |
30/30: Day 1 |
Detroiteverything in you is holding its breath:the tram that speeds round your heart, lookingfor someone to keep warm, your buildings with all those rolling desk chairs and break rooms, the idle bus b...
Posted by on Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:43:00 GMT |
Instructions for the Living, Part II |
Remember that sometimes, the dead do not go all at once. Sometimes, their bedrock lungshave let the waters fill and recede, fill and recede for a lifetime untiltheir spine has been carved into a canyo...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:04:00 GMT |
