Tag: vegetation

She looked at him and nodded cheerfully
As the year went on, and spring gave way to summer
The house had a smell of damp and old cooking
He rose from his chair and put on his hat
He, of all people, knows what’s real and what’s not
They’re so judgmental
They won’t just come out and say, …
… and no one is allowed to see the whole picture
That remembered image was all I had to go on
The place began to hum and rumble
Thinking is a physical process that goes on in your nerve tissue
There was a lot he didn’t know, …
… but nothing he was afraid to ask about, …
… and ask about, and ask about, …
… until he understood it perfectly
There was a lot of green and growing matter
The roadside ditches were full of jumpweed and slashberry
The shuttle won’t be back until tomorrow
It brimmed and thrummed like rising yeast
I know what you came for
To see how black I was
She didn’t want to be like that
She buttoned her coat and left the drugstore
Damn the snakes my man was coming for me
Everybody needs a pile of newspapers
Trees do not naturally sprout from lakes
I met a traveller from an antique land who said:
Two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert
He tries to get up on his elbows to look
It must be around midnight when the sharks come
The rhythm of the conversation is abruptly lost
Everything is silent except for the surf
Any thought that this was just a joke evaporated
Don’t talk to the Dentist. Ever. Not about anything
But he didn’t know who Kafka was
He has a home …
… he has a friend …
… both new concepts to him
All boys were bad crooks
Staring at a spot on the sidewalk
Suddenly the pickup bell rings
Only the last part was true
An angry unemployed man who’d …
… have been just as angry if he’d had a job
Then she phoned him one night
She wasn’t going to wake up
You don’t even have to give me a room
Being the obvious center of the universe
Round or flat, whatever
She reads with great concentration