Monthly Archives: March 2006

Coin in the Road

Sometimes I notice I’ve found a coin on the ground. Then I feel like there’s no reason to pick it up. Someone else might need it more than I. But then there’s that car with the naked driver that idles too loudly. I’m afraid it will hit me as soon as I try to pick up the coin.


The Breasts of Texas

Don’t let us down” is a song’s sad joke. only like happiness unreal again as it may be, it sifts through the driving dirt. We ride a road outside gravity, which stations us under the shine of a proud cosmos of one. One that Beams on its pubescent brush an edge-defining skin of greenery. Landscape:


She’s got Schrödinger’s Cat in the Crisper

I know my memory is not always infallible. I’m sure there are a few occasions in which I’ve forgotten to buy toothpaste at the grocery store, to lock the car door, the face of a person with whom I once worked, or one of those things we make with sounds from our mouths (sometimes on


Literacy

According to the American Heritage College Dictionary, the primary definition of a literate person is “One who can read and write.” How does one interpret such a general statement? To test this in a strictly literal sense, let’s say that I can read aloud with a certain degree of accuracy a sentence typed across this