“Getting strangled to death was the last thing in the world she imagined she would be doing Thursday night, the day after graduating university.” –BSB
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As You Linger
remember me, won’t you as early hours click by and lingers with fingers curled, you find yourself garments forgotten with the light of day a closed bedroom door becomes your watch-dog no one’s allowed here but me you allow me in with suicidal touch and flick and tug –BSB
What Went Wrong
“This can’t be the end,” she said as her eyes filled with infant tears. He didn’t know what to say to her and to those tears, and so he simply said, “It has to end some way.” “You’re a shit,” she said, and turned away. He wasn’t sure exactly where they went wrong, and whatContinue reading “What Went Wrong”
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stork and antelope on legs of spindle totter rarely fall from grace
Devil’s Elbow
The night I saw her at The Devil’s Elbow the tramp in the square’s twilight terrors split the night’s soft toddle of music from Chambar. It was the kind of bar, I thought as I trundled past, where you were supposed to meet someone like her. And it was one of those nights, too. A nightContinue reading “Devil’s Elbow”
clipping and clopping the heels of the ladies walk through hallways and dreams
you and your poodle
from the fine wire-rimmed glasses to your royal blue overcoat your preening and spoiled dog that has an attitude to go with its stylist from your mouth held tight as the grasp of your waxy fingers upon your clasp to the way your eyes look down your nose and straight ahead all at once inContinue reading “you and your poodle”
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stork and antelope on legs of spindle totter rarely fall from grace
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clipping and clopping the heels of the ladies walk through hallways and dreams
a kind gesture
Graciously beyond and above common standards of masculine practice fiercely enforced and stubbornly upheld by fathers, uncles, coaches and drill sergeants from his past, he reached up to take the kind offer of her hand and together a smile of mutual gratitude was shared between them.
