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Jobs & Workexpand_moreKenny Wade makes do with short-term schemes and part-time work.
I wander among my recollections of the world of letters in London.
What does it take for a woman like you to decide to do something?
“I’ve already submitted the course grades,” Costa said warily.
There was an intimacy to the sound that thrilled me.
“Werewolf Seized in Southend!” “Man Who Made Love to Pavements!”
Richard Bausch
The alert says Warning: Wild Exotic Animals Loose.
By the end of my trip to St. Thomas, I had discovered a reason to live.
The clock kept ticking, and the investors bailed out one by one.
She alone knew how he could be swept up, tender interior laid bare.
Last year alone, every American choked to death on a red balloon.
If he was cheating on her, he was cheating on her paintings as well.
The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.
It never occurred to me that I was being sold too, standing inside my box. Basil was annoyed. All that training he’d given me going to waste on art? I’ve been selling cigarettes, I said, as if it were a credential.
It seemed that someone had died, but really it was part of us.
“Dorm whores” his roommate calls them. They come for the booze.
The shapes called them bastard loads. The lazy creations of fools.
He had dreamed of being a front-runner, someone who changed lives.
I read cookbooks the way I do poetry, with a willingness to be transported.
“Make it look like you’re working on a nearby shelf,” Aunt Mary whispered.
We have mysterious inclinations. No one can explain it to us.
He’d been lost and tripping vividly on some speckled acid for days.
He was living like a coyote, out on the margins. But then a letter came.
All my life, I’d been shy, and I wasn’t about to change that.
Out by the road was her son standing without a stitch of clothing.
She was the idiot who fell in love with some high-class gigolo.
He felt desperate for the rains, mosquitoes be damned.
Since the accident she lost her hold on the world and never got it back.
She imagines his clothes on the floor, his arms wrapped around her waist.
