"You might come here Sunday on a whim." Richard Hugo, in "Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg" * * * * * * "Let me gaze into your lovely eyes, said a man to a mirror." Russell Edson, in "The Tormented Mirror" * *
2.20.2006
the drain said it had tried
She said once while we were smoking and making love on a pile of nails that I should walk slowly away from her through an alley of vomit and newspapers and give up all thoughts of what brand God smokes. I thought gee that's strange I know someone is here but all I see are floating blue blotches and all I can hear is a whistling noise and the national anthem of some country somewhere. I walked into the street and floating blue blotches honked and screamed at me. Suddenly a bird landed on my shoulder and farted. I cupped my hands and let the bird smell its own fart. It said thankyou and floated away. Just then the drain said it had tried acid more than once. I looked around for my monocle.
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