...
ah, Merryman,
a fighter on the docks,
killed a man while they were unloading
bananas.
I mean the man he killed
clubbed him first
from behind
with an anchor chain
(something about a woman)
and we all circled around
while
Merryman
did ...
Of all the affairs that Sherlock Holmes investigated, none was stranger nor more frightening than that of The Giant Rat of Sumatra. Holmes referred to it in the ...
Start the beamer,
thrash the beamer,
smash it into the housing estate.
Wave to the helicopter,
I ain’t sick and I don’t need a head doctor,
it ain’t stealing when I take your car,
it’s just ...
The moving truck is angled backwards in the driveway, and the “For Sale” sign sways a few feet from the blood red X someone spray-painted in our yard. ...
Josiah Bounderby exploded on a Sunday morning.
His wife, Rachel, crouched in the cloakroom under the stairs, buffered by the winter coats and wellingtons, and stared into the darkness as ...
the pleasures of the damned
are limited to brief moments
of happiness:
like the eyes in the look of a dog,
like a square of wax,
like a fire taking the city hall,
the county,
the continent,
like ...
– Take your coat, Veronica says to her son as the 11.52 express from Milan glides soundlessly into the main line station of Geneva and comes, almost imperceptibly, to ...
No sounds this morning. I click my fingers a few times, just to check it isn’t me. Things have been… unsettled lately, which makes it hard to stay calm. I’ve ...
sitting in a dark bedroom with 3 junkies,
female.
brown paper bags filled with trash are
everywhere.
it is one-thirty in the afternoon.
they talk about madhouses,
hospitals.
they are waiting for a fix.
none of them work.
it’s ...
you
no faces
no faces
at all
laughing at nothing—
let me tell you
I have drunk in skid row rooms with
imbecile winos
whose cause was better
whose eyes still held some light
whose voices retained some sensibility,
and when ...
A ring as alarming as the beginning of Beethoven’s 9th cuts through my dream. I answer the dastardly machine with a wheeze and racist cliché replies.
‘Supplies! Supplies!’
Surprise!? I open my ...
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