We'd won big, bigger than we'd dreamed. 

We left the campus, scaring the goats with one last obnoxious horn blast louder than all the road raging warriors dancing on exclamation points.

It-it'd not matter that we'd be tawdry, gypsyish, sunburned darker than  planeloads up from Aruba, this w… Read full post »

Mofick tacked me, honor, he did tack me.

Gavel sounded hastily.

They struck me from behind I'd figured.

Dust heap. Dried blood out my nostril. Hold it. Sssssh!

Henry'd given me a used snot rag. I bandaged my blistered right hand.

Actually, I am exhilerated.

Only juice for what? Two, three?… Read full post »

As if I'm not already haunted enough this morning. 

 Darn good warm weather came back. 

 An hay bale's worth. 

 Do you hear the xylephone?'

Later you'll say, "clever", "well done".

" Exquisite" would be my first choice. 

 I'll end with 'pretty good'. 

Eigh… Read full post »

whom I'd spun on the Bose, after having tired of my cable system's music selections.  And of watching finches feed on a black tin cylinder, the redheaded woodpecker upside down carbing up suet, stuff from the big box, man-made items to maybe capture at least one day, the… Read full post »

Governors Doyle and Granholm officially agreed Monday to rename Lake Michigan Lake Wisconsin. 

Abroad the Forbes Yacht Highlander, moored 500 yards offshore Door Co., WI and as CNN soundman was retreived from the choppy 46 degree water, the governors enjoyed a photo op on the stern of&… Read full post »

Travellers stopped just after I'd returned from Delightful Garden, laden with flats of purple pansies and pink carnations.  Their Smart Car was obtuse on the Greek keyed, patterned, tumbled squares.  You  knew they were so stoned that Burton shouldna been driving. … Read full post »

He'd cancelled his subscription to Lapham's Quarterly. You'd equate that (metamorphize a sudden impactful word like the fade on Spike TV as a huge bat the size of Tower Two just after Brad Pitt nodded, to crush the nazi's head) or you'd equate that to retrieving the nicotined rinsed coverle… Read full post »

Your first mistake was parking outside Sam's.  I've seen that at times, translucence reflects just so off the asphalt.  An eye-piercing glintiness absorbs only primary colors; all else casts invisibly. The straw hats of old ladies float past slowly, and a frail boy can be seen beh… Read full post »

He'd grasped Boss's right shoulder (black onyx ring on pianist's middle finger) and held onto the right rear door handle looking far enough over from the back seat, Fast Eddie saw the speedometer wavering over 100, red.

Ruby'd a placid grimmace. We minds well be laying on the tracks in… Read full post »

Neglect fictions beginning

with sunrise (S)

referenced   (U)

0thingre:nu (N)

Rating once (R)

Upon and so (I)

beginning      (S)

you left  M    (E)

it's alright

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Gray Gray Gray Gray Gray

Gray Gray Gray Gray Gray Gray Gray

Gray Gray Gray Gray Gray

He'd not heard the song before, but it would not soon leave his mind, as he saw all of them and his manicured thumb nail almost sneaking a toothpick at the Waffle House while Ruby paid by credit card, then he wanted to twirl and spin on one foot, before si… Read full post »

He'd enjoyed it everytime Boss'd drove aimlessly through the city, and this morning they'd time to kill before Ruby's performance at the stadium.  Over her shoulder she looked where Joad'd been and for a horrible instant only Fast Eddie was in the back seat, you'd hear his blues harp soulfully p… Read full post »

He'd been only half way up the stairs --- all of them Ruby, Boss and Fast Eddie --- as the Edsel backfired,  post ignition: kabam! a small black cloud suspended and disbursed briskly like the wind.  Just as the pair of black and white terriers yelped in the arbovitaes, next to and… Read full post »

He'd remembered we was just boys, Boss, Fast Eddie and Joad, what'd the rest care about burning aluminum, church bells clanged as they drove past the quiet corner waving so long again, as Joad's girl was seen kick starting her Harley trike, you knew right away that the top down on the… Read full post »

He'd contemplated the morning's dampness as he stood waiting with Ruby and Joad for Boss to drive down the labyrinthine parking gargage in his Edsel convertible.  Joad's new girlfriend had languidly kissed the young Marine, lifting her right leg for  Ruby's camera moments ago… Read full post »

He'd awakened with the sunrise, leaving his eyes closed, moving his eyes up and down and sideways, feeling the light through the panoramic expanse of glass high above the shore.  Fast Eddie would have seen the dawn, though he sensed the light on his eyelids.  A peregrin falcon, perched… Read full post »

He'd played at least four sets, and now Ruby stood to the side of the baby grand, an index finger touching beneath her right eye, her blue eyes like the outer rim of sea surrounding an island, as she exhaled relaxing.  Fast Eddie waited for the silence and in moments he played… Read full post »

He'd stepped outside firing a smoke with a farmer's match

in front of Boss's remembering how Boss confided last season

that his larnyx had been tainted by AGENT ORANGE and how

he'd travel to Mayo Clinic every half year for rehabilitaion

Fast Eddie noted how Boss's lounge was the slickest on… Read full post »

He'd finally gotten back to his piano bench pounding out

a boogied version of Forgerty's Centerfield , as the now max

-ed dining area kept spilling over toward the ivoryness of

Fast's smile, the collegiate white kids, now dancing without

moving their feet, drinks spilling, Eddie's own bench

dancing… Read full post »

He'd been a bit late, several minutes, hours years and

forgotten to remove the slippery neatly invisible 

whitener from his mouth, grabbing a napkin from the

rounded corner of the bar Boss greeted him hey Fast Eddie

through that electric voicebox held over his adam's apple

somehow waving… Read full post »

He'd cowboys on his pajamas, barefooted he munched dry cereal colored like some crayons, three round colors, hmm hmm hmm, a little more drawing with green lower on the page, the cartoon just loud enough of the wolf chasing the bird, not much other light, two, three more round cereals, a little… Read full post »

with the velocity of a frisbee weaponized to kill.  He was out. His jaw cracked like a pretzel equidistant between his cleff chin and ear lobe, his lip split like the balloon tire of an old Schwinn.  He didn't realize this out of body experience, perhaps his scheduled demise, was coyly… Read full post »

Maggie!

Just who I wanted to hear from,  no no I'm at O'Hare and you're just where I wanted you to be.  Don't forget I put you there---kidding, I'm kidding. No, we were out, Z and I saw Grand Torino. O yeah do it. Catch up to it. No not bad… Read full post »

Z'd talked him into Chantix though he'd been 'strongly opposed' to pharm anything pharm for at least eight years.  Along with the oxygen warmly replacing his apnea mask, holy mother of god, it's the Virgin Mary, no, no, that's your own  mouth open under water, leave out the cussin', quicken… Read full post »