He had to knuckle down

And get it together.

If he were a train,

He’d be off the tracks,

So it was your mom who was

responsible for all that nastiness

in the eighties?

Mon, Feb 8 5:58 PM

Ellicott and Benders are wearing matching green outfits … which

they must have planned.

Among the hundred or so

removed from the sunken island,

the camera most loves

a girl, at fourteen still unmarried;

“I hear they’ve got some nice girls down there,” Tom said when I got the confirmation email from the surf resort.

Just a few lines might kill me now,

past sixty, well above the speed limit.

I loved the rush it gave.

No one can go out after sunset. Don’t freak, Phillip says.

Her infinite scroll consisted mostly of selfies:

crow-black hair, ocean-swept fringe.

We were stolen at birth and brought into this world. This world has robbed us.

I, Vern, said to Francine, “Let’s go shopping for androids!”

down at the chophouse

buying a $75 steak

18 Oz. 55 Day Dry Aged Bone-in Ribeye

My long-term girlfriend left me for a woman named Chris, which was my own name, and somehow made things worse.

The horror we call Lampman 

prowls along a gravel road

where last spring’s anemones failed.

Gillian directed her husband toward an empty spot near the back door of the apartment building.

He watched her coming up the front walk holding a pamphlet.

Slow hands take you

And you do not give anything away

the man’s ponytail went down to his hips

he dragged a pole above his head

Perhaps it will be like

the night your ex and you

called it quits. Remember,

she was making dinner

Blaine Washington cleans the remainder of the makeup from under his eyes with a baby wipe before sitting down in front of the television in the small theater dressing room.

Discovery of Richard’s bones below

that Leicester parking lot has made me think

about my own: A tuneless violin

within a battered case?