I visited Gen in her half asleep Carolina town and as many times as I could flick her ear while she cooked some down home sweet potatoes for me, or woke up to tea already made and house slippers she let me borrow lined up next to the bed, as many times as I half [...]
Posts Tagged ‘car’
The Sweetest of Sweet Potatoes.
Posted in short shorts, tagged car, Carolina, cooking, kiss, love, New York, Richmond, roommate, train on June 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Reasons.
Posted in short shorts, tagged car, love, metro, paris, texas, TV, y'all on June 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Talking with a friend in Paris before I left, he said, “TEXAS?!? You’re moving from PARIS to TEXAS!?!” And I said Yes. And he said But why?! “There are the reasons that I tell and then there’s a girl.” “Some girl?” And I said that no, not just some girl and he said that he [...]
Nineteen hour straight shot.
Posted in places, short shorts, tagged car, chicago, Columbus, Coney Island, diner, forest, New York, pennsylvania, pocono, Thai food on February 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I worked myself to dark circles for half a year before seeing Pennsylvania road after Pennsylvania road up and over the Poconos slight moonlight reflecting off Sunday’s snow and onward, onward icy road and neon signs saying how many miles to wherever and wherever after. We stopped for toilets and coffee and asked the waitress [...]
Triple Shot.
Posted in Triple Shots, tagged bleach, car, expiration, lightning, lucid dream, sophomore, sweet 16, tree on February 18, 2009 | 3 Comments »
My friend Matilda was given a car for her 16th birthday. It sat in the driveway with a ribbon on it and that night, after the surprise, after the tearful thank yous, near two a.m. or so, a storm came. Lighting hit the 16 year-old tree the father had planted the day Matilda was [...]
