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like a drop in the torrent pounding into the walls a twig on the current, heading over the falls a mote in a cyclone whirling violently 'round one volt in a bolt thrown, finally going to ground feeding on a brittle leaf who's the little thief that steals the carpet from beneath our feet? do you choose to run until you fall? or was it you refused to risk it all, and lost it? you just tossed it... tidy doilies of order spread on igneous rock men patrolling the border armed w/ the hands of ...

They neglected to give me instructions.

About ten-thirty the following night, the Goth Sloth made her entrance. That’s what I think of her as, anyway. It’s my own private nickname for her, not that I’d ever say it out loud within her earshot. I have these little pet names for a lot of my regulars. Like the ancient little gnome who comes in once a week for the latest issue of Weekly World News and a small bag of peanuts (which he promptly dumps into his bottle of Dr. Pepper while still standing at the counter), I call him Woody Wood...

INESCAPABLE GOAT It begins late at night, as you’re preparing for bed: you take one last peek through the curtains, and see, in the gauzy golden teepee of streetlight, standing in the skewed puddle of its shadow, a lone goat. Its coat dingy white, stained with large, amorphous spots of brownish-gray and almost-black. Jaws describe asymmetric half circles as it chews, chew, chews. But what is it doing there? What is it chewing? Above its raggedy swaying goatee, flashes of blood red and silver...

WINGS OF POLISHED CHROME Gettin’ fed up with the whispers in the air duct I can never quite make out a single word they say I’m either wired or so tired that I just can’t wake up The medication made me groggy so I flushed it away When my angel comes to save me With her blazing sword and wings of polished chrome All these demons that enslave me Will be vanquished & I’ll soar to Heaven’s dome Gettin’ ready for a battle that will settle something: Where the one world ends and the other starts De...