Archive for January 2012
John Wilkes Booth Today
mustn’t permit deed of john wilkes booth to stand instead remove from that time and place and raise today in theatrical family thriving in manhattan and nod when hollywood beckons splendid booth becomes movie star in his early twenties making millions while drinks snorts and occasionally crashes cars but fires only slurred words To see…
Read MoreEgyptian Generals Suppress Opponents
to protect freedom won in revolution we egyptian generals must stop foreign backed enemies demanding democracy settle down or fall into mubarak’s courtroom bed
Read MoreNew Employee
new employee pulls my eyes hardens hers couple months later feel gentler look up say wait aren’t you
Read MoreState of the Union
This story is from the collection “Obama on Edge”
Read MoreInterview with Robert F. Kennedy
gtc – could you as promised have really gotten u.s. out of vietnam rfk – certainly at least couple months before richard nixon did gtc – how would world be different if you’d been president rfk – based on my real accomplishments and everything that’s happened since would be about same gtc – would anything…
Read MoreInvitation to Brave Tweeters
brave men tweeting san francisco forty niner kyle williams should die should jump from golden gate should catch bullet should blow up in car because twice fumbled football are invited to next tweet at team headquarters Source: SFGate.com on January 23, 2012
Read MoreUpdates for John F. Kennedy
mister president sorry to tell you bobby assassinated in ‘sixty eight right after winning california primary jackie fled to marry aristotle onassis died of cancer age sixty four john john dashing and popular but crashed plane age thirty eight caroline fine but says you know a lot
Read MoreChevron Tests Aftereffects of Oil Wells in Ecuador
chevron swears did not contaminate land and water in amazonian northeast ecuador then have drink say plaintiffs chevron says not thirsty but water fine watch this throws rock does not sink Source: “Reversal of Fortune” by Patrick Radden Keefe in The New Yorker January 9, 2012
Read MoreCrime Scene
man handcuffed chest down on floor head other side of room
Read MoreTrust Newt Gingrich
trust newt gingrich god and south carolina have forgiven him
Read MoreKorean Wail
tried to cry for kim jong il but could not my brother cried loudly but without dramatic skill now we rehearse in jail
Read MoreRemembering Mass Murder in San Fernando, Mexico
There hasn’t been much new news in search engines about the discovery one year ago of a hundred seventy-seven corpses near San Fernando, Mexico. Occasional reports merely reminded that just eighty miles south of Brownsville, Texas, Mexican authorities ignored a mountain of unclaimed luggage in a bus depot before finally digging holes and discovering mummified…
Read MoreParty
at party naked couple hugs painting each other
Read MoreOrange Ladies
two mouths pout under hats above dresses sexy or mean better assume mean and sexy
Read MoreAmiri Baraka Clears Mind
decades ago when poet amiri baraka’s surname jones rebuked for obscenity by langston hughes in essay “that boy leroi” now almost eighty on stage with fiftyish daughter at hammer museum and can’t remember abstract impressionist painter who dripped jackson pollock she said and the mexican muralist my man diego rivera she said baraka generally lucid…
Read MoreBashar al-Assad Gets Tougher
i am not dork or mass murderer i’m president for life of syria and prepared to strike with iron fist those foreign terrorists who’ve been agitating my people this i decreed during fiery two hour speech forcing everyone to understand my father and i’ve ruled syria forty years lot less than forever they’ll have to…
Read MoreMiddle of River – Part 2
(This vertical prose has been rewritten in horizontally and posted on July 24, 2012.) stay out of american river kids in neighborhood often told there’s undertow you can’t see branches either here read today’s newspaper another boy’s drowned still couldn’t stay out of water nor could other kids swimming whenever wanted never meeting danger until…
Read MoreRoll Pretty River
where did he go in wonder what happened couldn’t he swim two days under you saw them bring him out what’d he look like that had to be tough
Read MoreChampions of Sleep
This story is in the collection “Basketball and Football”
Read MoreConcerned Citizen
eli constantly rails online denouncing greedy bemoaning hungry as shoves more food into belly
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