We Are Not AVerse

it'll never be perfect like  breakfast at tiffany's, but we can still get a cat named cat, and i'll still kiss you 'i...

Tonight I stepped on a lobster. A live lobster. Like really alive. I ruined its escape.  It made it out of the Whole Foods bag an...

If you wait long enough, maybe the destination will arrive at you.

To show off spring colors, they've assembled rows of white ass. From the back, hips jut suggestively outward, small swatches of pla...

If chivalry is really dead, then maybe I should stop minding its fontanelle.

I just saw a film by Joss Whedon Where we all got to laugh about Sweden But the US failed too So the old Gods renew Their strength, than...

It never would have worked. You hate limes. You sleep with one sock on. You dislike modern art and Les Fleurs du Mal and you were only ...

When my internet lags, I feel as though someone dropped me in the La Brea tar pits. Maybe it was a slow connection that killed the dino...

Tall blue silhouttes How many do you stand for? Anonymous all.

There's an undeniable beauty in sleeping till noon. But why does it feel so wasteful?

The leash is a formality they do not bother anymore. The great oaf grins blindly on his morning walk which often as not is in small cir...

But some days I love you from the top of my heart.

Today I saw one in the wild, cradled in a stranger's hand. My base temptation at once was riled, the sight was near too much to stand...

Anon, a naan, and on and on, na Na na Na na Na na Na.

Lincoln once gave a speech so great that there is no record of it. Every short-hand in the room dropped its pencil when the president spoke ...

Tell me we've shaken it off. Tell me it's past and that past is a thing that is buried in a box in the dirt under the floorboa...

It's smooth arc was a beauty to behold. But He never saw the spear, until it burst through it chest.

It has been said that death Is evil, for the gods Will not partake in it. So birth damns us all. We should create fewer Lives, to spare the ...

we walk and guess what our mother thought --was thinking when she was our age --our ages it is brisk and windy, as usual --colder to y...

sometimes words are useless things. they make poor buckets for what we mean to fill them with. and mine usually have holes in the bottom...

Today, for just a moment, I thought that it was fall. What a lovely thought.

May the Lord bless you and keep you. Good luck with the interview, little brother. May He protect and defend you. Whether you are hun...

Today I looked for an envelope that I had misplaced on top of my dresser some time ago.  So I began to dig through a pile soy miscellany....

For a time Kai sat in laps and watched his father make spreadsheets. Now that he goes to preschool Kai takes attendance at home. Lines ...

Aching muscles, sore feet, crackling knees, sandpaper lungs. Bite marks. Turns out, I can't outrun a horde of zombies.

There once was a man from Gowanus whose favorite dish was cow anus.      He'd braise it in wine      till it tasted quite fine. ...

It's at night - when you're just about to fall asleep - that your unbounded brain starts to write out your grocery list and wonde...

You may watch me when I'm gone. I wouldn't mind. You could watch me in my sleep now and I'd sleep just as sound. Put new w...

It's a slow process Water pressure welling against tissue. The salt burrows into muscle and fat, clawing through tissues, breaking down ...

You sing him to sleep pretend he is yours kiss his head watch him sleep feel like crying. It is so easy to take him in your arms  to preten...

when you lean like that,  all odd angles against brick, laughing into my hair smoky and  liquid and low — i want to do it over again. i wan...

I came back from the pharmacy to find 317 open tabs open on the browser of my open laptop. My poor cat. She still failed to find kitty...

I never wish for super powers more than when I'm standing at the foot of a staircase thinking about teleportation.

I do not like your machinations For my posters. Frames are for rich people and criminals. In the dead of night I will hang Construction ...

When I'm gone, don't cry for me. Just boot up our favorite memory.

After you'd gone, I sweeping up, days later, finding dark half moons on the floor.

The howler monkey may be The loudest animal In the new world But it is not the loudest In my apartment building.

Sometimes I wish I was a little bit taller, and I wish I was a baller, but then I remember, I'm sexy and I know it.

These are the lucky numbers for the Victorian lotto— Thirty-Six, Twenty-Four, Thirty-Eight. Your love for me is bound between eighteen and t...

is like a horse that has broke from his rider, who voluntarily runs into a much more violent career than any horseman would put him to, and ...

If you write it screaming you can't take it back. Retype it, calm and reasonable. Choose your brackets wisely to maintain the order of o...

Sometimes I get so jittery, I worry that I will start vibrating fast enough to just disappear.

I dont know where to stand At parties. Too near My companion and I finish Every other story, start Few of my own, too far From her and ...

I was drunk, then hungover, then I had an iced coffee. Now I'm okay.

Hey, watch your language, buddy. My inner child can hear you.

If you face a task Where Control is giving you trouble Try using Command.

I may become desensitized, in my old age, to many things that once terrified me. Dark nights, now full of shadows concealing only laundry pi...

To claim no fish were harmed in the making of a film, producers must ensure no single fish does three out of water takes per day. Would that...

We come here empty. We leave empty. But there is something beautiful in the barren symmetry of bones to bones again. Sometimes I ...

Little empty pockets make it excruciating, but I can't stop eating candy.