How could we bear to live here then;
These large green lawns spilling into curbs, winding roads
the flatness of it all
strip malls, Kohl’s, DSW
mailboxes at the end of each driveway
some with a little painted bird
Sweet mother of God I am 26 years old and
Hairphernalia is still here!
Best Cleaners still here
Ax Man Surplus and Eric The Bike [...]
We were enjoying our billionth screening of Lost In Translation when I stuck my fork into a container of Drunken Udon noodles, hit a particularly succulent green bean and a two-out-of-three pepper rating shot directly into my right eyeball.
“Bwah!” I cried. “Bwah!”
“What?” Jurvis cried back. “What? What’s wrong?”
“Bwah!” I ran into our bathroom and stuck [...]
I am apparently entering a time of my life when I have anxiety issues again. I’ve decided, this time, to just write about it. It’s happened enough — and passed enough — that I feel simultaneously detached from the situation as it happens; I can both observe and experience it. And maybe someone else will [...]
Prologue:
We have always compared ourselves to ugly ducklings.
I.
After the swans had surrounded us
we headed home
Grabbed bicycles and adjusted helmet straps and
got back on the trail,
to land, smack dab eventually
in our kitchen
As if all of this had been nothing out of the ordinary.
I said,
“Did you put the cheese in the fridge.”
I said,
“We’ll wash those later.”
Plastic [...]
Jurvis and I visited his family in Connecticut this weekend, and when other plans fell through (ocean! summer homes! sunburns!), I went with his sister and parents to the weekend Moosup flea market. It was the second flea market I’d ever been to; also, the first in around ten years.
First score: the Agfa Optima Compura. [...]