Monday, February 18, 2008

The Same Dumb Run


  1. The bathtub is grayed at the temples.
  2. The pigeons asleep in their chair.
  3. Twice hideous, once loved.
  4. A raw feeling at dinner.
  5. Red knuckles.
  6. The faint strains of roadwork.
  7. Pistol whip chorus.
  8. You speak only in striations. Obligatory turbans and you don't have to see me.
  9. The bearded croissant.
  10. Cleanliness rarely equaling happiness.
  11. Along the ________ edge of my knife.
  12. Given up to perfect hair.
  13. An unlikely confusion.
  14. If you believe it's the same you'll never make it.
  15. By radiant bus drivers.
  16. Everywhere, everywhere a peach.
  17. Grandstanding the pipe.
  18. From many years ago a letter.
  19. Oh, god.
  20. The checks inadvertently in the checkbook.
  21. The horrendous nature of ink. Of thinking.
  22. Four orange flowers and nothing is better.
  23. Volumes of Tolstoy and nothing is solved.
  24. To argue at length the proper placement of the bookcase.
  25. The love of you never rising above my hands.
  26. The hue.
  27. Dogs in the doorway; don't bother.
  28. One day we'll walk an imaginary wheel.
  29. An ever-increasing canto.
  30. You might be less sad if you listened to Pavarotti.
  31. You would like to pretend there was a first time.
  32. Do you have a favorite bird.
  33. Is your favorite bird the one you both loved and murdered at some frequency with BB guns.
  34. Too much fabric at the ankle.
  35. You imagine you whistle and they hear it.
  36. You imagine they understand.
  37. "Fashion Coat."
  38. Every day write down the song you'll die to.
  39. Math for the meter.
  40. So much discussion.
  41. We drove in one sitting to Pittsburgh.
  42. Between gargantuan movements of light.
  43. Who wins whose insanity.
  44. A more complete recollection of scraps.
  45. The collective holding of breath.
  46. Legs crossed and waiting.
  47. We came upon a clearing and within the clearing lay _______________.
  48. Oh come on. What doesn't lie within a clearing, somewhere.
  49. Some's and every's and an's and the's.
  50. All the power to possess it.
  51. Drive fast in white heels.
  52. The one bass note that will win you.
  53. It's impossible to predict what happens next.
  54. To make the bed or pack a picnic lunch.
  55. We walked out into the clearing on the tips of our half-ripped shoes.
  56. There must be a scientific term for saying very little.
  57. There is a term, like a shirt, for everyone.
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