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And I’m glad to be friends
with you. But now I’m supposed to ask you the same question and
the one thing I can’t ever hear is you talking about another man. | So
let’s move on to other topics. This curry , for instance. |
Certificates of education about
rattlesnakes, coyotes. You had to try and try. | You had to know somebody. Nothing left alive to soak
up the sounds and the air made white noise like a jet engine next to you. |
Don’ t you get it. I
work, then come home. | Go to bed early . I got a better shot at cancer than at
a girlfriend.
Quit your job, she says. |
The skin of her arms hot. He
could feel it.
Hi, yeah... | he said.
She was crouching again. Facing him. |
Fluffykins won mostly, which
made him proud. But out back was a big steep hill covered in tall grass;
coyotes lived there. | If the cat was out after dark he’d sit and think about the
coyotes ripping him apart until he came in. The cat hadn’t come on the street
out front. |
He paused. Down the street monsoon clouds miles high.
Something black flapped across the moon.Festival of Savings
He dreamed he was walking. | Looked down and his hands were holding papers. Folders of
mistakes he’d made. |
One fish left living in his tank. But one of his
cactuses had blossomed. | His credit had improved. Things he didn’ t think
could be taken away had been. |
She did have perfect tits. She did have an IUD, so I could blast
in her, her laying on her stomac h, one of my legs between her legs. | Big tits
and perfect small nipples. That’ s something. |
We can do this, she said, but if we make a baby I’m
going to keep it. When I think of her now we make the baby . | He’d be 25.
Coffee Shop Diary: Quite an Ass
How to get laid. How to meet girls without bars. |
Your mistakes, less
meaningful than the death of a liver fluke. Like your happiness.
You were never born. | You never lived. When you’re dead things are just the
way they’ve always been. |
There’s a new property with
rail spur. Specifically designed for meat storage, or citrus. | If you meet your wife I get ten grand, he
said. He was kidding, but Vlad said: done.
Vlad already had a profile. |
Locked the car. Picked up the heavy tupperware and his briefcase off the trunk lid. | When
he got to the dark glass door from parking garage to office, he put the briefcase down. Then the
tupperware. |
Watching me walk past the “LOTTERY, ATM” sign and the
cutout of a leering Captain Morgan. Sadly shaking their heads. | I made a show
of walking out not holding a bag. The liquor store had fine deals on all my
favorites, as is its wont. |
Not one relaxed skeleton.
The old Mercedes took the vegetable oil fine, as Jamie and Adam had
confirmed
. But sipping it
for calories made their hair greasy. | Their guts slippery. The car had sat low on the back tires with
weight of the water they carried, but not now. |
It’s building painful
lesions on to your face. It’ s taking over .
OK but–
As I said, not much we can do. | But it does sometimes fade.
It does?Yes, and then comes back; the overall pattern gets worse over time of
course. But you may have some good days. |
The
poor girl– I brought her here to party. Get some drama. | Last time I got four
good posts out if it. Now she holds me at night and I cry. |
Likes the same book s as me.
She too is a writer toiling in obscurity. Worried about losing her voice in
work, worried about time. | We lock in on the same sentences in stories. I want
a relationship. |
Got her tits
out in the moonlight. Inside he put on “Prelude to the Afternoon of a
Faun” They got naked. | He got on top of her on the mattress he’d put
out for a kid he was babysitting. Got ready to go in.
What if I have AIDS, she said.
Well now you got it twice.
She told him don’t cum in me seven minutes in. |
I need a detail oriented motivated self
starting rock star where you just plug it in and it works.
Oppor tunity for growth. You could be sitting where I’m sitting some day.
Next year it could be you regarding some nervous schlump’s resume with
your lizardlike eyes, tapping a pen on a pressboard desk like a fucking
woodpe cker on meth thinking how soon can I get out of this interview. | Why
does HR keep sending me these shitbirds when I asked for a chick.
Sweating in a bad suit, bad shoes, eyes rubbed raw glaring at people’s stupid
emails until you can’t read street signs anymore; you can’t focus on anything
more than three feet away. Wondering if they monitor your internet; you’ve
been reading hooker reviews, wondering if you can afford an appropriate tip
for “Anastasia” who has received three point eight stars collectively and has
“the cutest accent” according to whoremaster69. |
There is no tomorrow. No later. | There is now. You can fuck me now
or never see me, and if I were you, 38 years old, I would take what you can
get.
Let me know your number if you’re dow n.How I Met Your Mother
We met on a web site. |
Work used to be eight hours. Now
fourteen. | She works fourteen hours too. And proud of it. |
And they smelled like need. He
thought the idea of God was ridiculous but he believed that women
could smell pheromones through phones and computers. | That if he
sent the exact same words but didn’t get laid the night before they
could tell. Therefore it was important that he message girls today .
The shot clock had been reset.
I think we’ll have fun,
one of them said back.
949-555-6879.
**********
They were at El Prado. |
Does that mean I’m not leaving. Am I a ghoul– no, I’m
just an ordinary citizen thinking about performing approximately eighteen
hours of hot room cunnilingus on this southeast Asian 16 year old. | The way
her charcoal color sweatpants appear to get sucked up into her puffy snatch
from behind.
Need to write an AA amends to a person I resent. I resent him because I
hate my own life. |
He took the water, the sport duffle full of guns
and bear arrows. Paused to pat the walnut on the dashboard.
We’ll come back for her if we need to, she said. | But you can let her go. She kept us safe.
She was right.
**The beach looked almost like nothing had happened. |
His voice is in the birds.
But somewhere there’ s a city crew using a gas powered weed cutter or some
shit. Clearing brush at 8am on a Sunday . | Definitely the best time to have
loud machines. Not between 9 and 5 on a weekday when people are at
school and work. |
So I defini tely bought
it. It’s here somewhere.
OK, “somewhere” doesn’t do me any good though. | It exists, that’s
great, but it’ s not helpful . What I want to know is where did you put it.
I mean I thought I put it where the soap usually goes…
She put her palm to her forehead. |
Norwood snapped on toothpaste color gloves. Pulled open a high
cabinet. | Took down a black briefcase. Unlatched it. |
Any girl with her body type facetiously
listed as “used up” will fuck you. Any woman of Hispanic extraction will
fuck you. | Any Asian woman of any body type besides “thin” will fuck you.
In fact, any woman at all with a body type outside of “thin” or “fit” will fuck
you. |
When a girl makes eye contact and smiles I feel like a romance novel
cover. When she does what this chick is doing I feel like a slug on her
sidewalk after the rain. | An invertebrate. Not even. |
I
could never take you skydiving. Why do you have to take this thing we have
and kill it. | Just let it have its time. Yes, you need to marry some dork. |
The cicadas going. Looking at you perfect while you slept.
Not believing how good the world was.
You Can All Suck My Dick
The neighbors upstairs have a kid. | Another on the way. The one, he’s
maybe two now; he just stomps back and forth sixteen hours a day. |
We’ll pick
you up, he said. We’re gonna get beer.
How? Does Ricky have a hardship license for that too-
His brother’s home.
Ricky’s brother was in the army. | His fiancée was pregnant. There was a joke that no one knew
what the baby would look like. |
City buses picked clean. Everything spraypainted with
Fuck Piss Cunt
. | Down a staircase
cut in the hillside a giant concrete platform. Thick looking steel double doors in it, maybe forty feet
long. |
Yes, that’s stupid, she says. Obviously shit like “RIP” is out;
“She’s Gone,” “She Died,” what the fuck. | I can’t use your name. I’m afraid
your mom will read it. |
They’d walked out of their buildings to head
to their date at the same time. She had blue eyes and looked like a painting on
a 1930’ s fruit crate. | They got drunk and talked shit at the Short Stop. Her
choice of venue. |
White girls are hard. It’s easier when you’re exotic to
somebody . | To you I’m just every douche on your high school lacrosse team.
And what a pain in the ass you are already. Your messages are nothing but
“dance monkey dance.” Your profile is just one bit of banal self-
aggrandizement after another. |
But the coming home to someone:
you’re fucked. Now and forever. | Your kid’s college fund money choppe d up
into eighty bucks after tip until they pass some new sex trafficking law and
then to the robots. Plus she’d bug the fuck out of you after 3 weeks. |
This was what my squats were for. Deadlifts
making the Taleb face. | Her ungodly Thai temple tits, her ungodly bikini
body forced against me skin on skin at 12% body fat. An old black lady we
walked by said that’s love. |
All that matters.
Also because I fucked that girl Sunday. OKCupid. | It was the morning after
my AA fifth step. You take your diary of the evils you’ve done out of hatred
and lust and fear and read it to someone. |
Phone poles but no live wires. He dropped a stop sign
across two downed cables to see if it would spark. | No light, no cracking sound. Just shrieking black
winds, car alarms slowly drowning into dead battery moans. |
It’s over between me and the fucking planet. I love you
baby but don’t push me. | What holds people together anymore. All I can do is
tell you take a fucking walk. |
And he pronounced the
T
too hard as he reached out a hand from his
hoodie pouch pocket.
Kent was white. Maybe 45. | Maybe five foot ten. His hair was black with a stately amount of gray
at the temples. |
Tell the story again. My friend pulled me out of the
house and she was alone in my room and my information is in the top drawer
there. | It was her. I don’t know her name, just her nickname. |
A little wren came. And then finch es with red
faces, I don't know what they are. | Landing on the foxtail grass making it
sway under their little weight. Throwing their heads back to swallow the
seeds. |
She was saying something about money and he was
having a daydream about explaining his testicular torsion to the nurse at
urgent care. He would say it was a girl. | But he wouldn’ t say he paid. Why
didn’ t you stop her , she would ask. |
I crashed into the back of a Salvadoran couple who were
clearly uninjured but the guy started holding his back with the subtlety of
the evil priest in the telenovelas they play at the laundromat. Motherfucker .
Now I’m getting called into work on a Sunday . | Exactly like fucking Office
Space . How did this happen. |
Having me meet their rehab
counselor so they can get checkout privileges and go smoke speed. I’m alive
to not ruin my mother’s life with my suicide. | I’m alive to contribute to the tax
base by working diligently until my body is broken. I shall take no wife, hold
no lands, father no children. |
Now you need fifth lead on
General Hospital face. For a 2017 woman to not recoil with hate baked in
her chromosomes. | Eight feet tall, planetcrushing cock, six trillion cash. You
need a harem you keep pregnant to get a cocked eyebrow from a pig whocan do fifteen minutes off the cuff on the quirks of a Scorpio . |
I make 120
grand and have 6 inches on every Mexican man. Still, they drunk
drive and kill people. | Can’ t compete with that. Gangbangers and
their uncle are plowing these girls since they’re 12 and they’re
all SJW too.
33. |
Waddled wildly until he could get if off. There
looked to be a door under a rack where a naked man was wired to a car
battery, shrieking. | He ran for it. Great Merciful God, it was unlocked. |
Yeah of course, I’ll uh come out– did you have
trouble finding the place?
No.
OK well thanks for coming–
Well it was mandated by the government, she said. She wasn’ t bad looking.
She smiled, and I remembered I wasn’ t either .
**
I took her to the duck pond near my apartment. | They’d have given me
someone who likes birds. I’d mentioned it 10 times in the form. |
I was carrying a briefcase with my laptop in it. All around me
were huge menacing black people. | A man jumped off a kid’s Huffy bicycle to
punch another man in the face. The origin of the dispute was unclear. |
Another thick Asian woman. Long braids. | Black guy. Pushing a
baby stroller. |
I hope so. It’d be an excuse for self pity and
another example of how I’m invisible. | My life is Milton from Office Space.
Muttering about how I was shunted into the roach basement. The other barista
is back now, the guy who looks like the 20th hijacker, after a 15 minute
absence. |
His face was like a senator from Utah. He sounded like a commercial for paying to
make sure your loved ones were taken care of after the unthinkable.
You came up from LA? Said Kent.
Yes, Sherman Oaks– sorry, I didn’t mean to–
Not looking too good down there I bet.
They’re raping people.
How’s the infrastructure.
What?
The roads–
They weren’t great to begin with. | Where did you come from–
Calabasas. We got hit hard too, and they keep coming. |
Trapped even now, lungs half
crushed choking on smoke. Pinned in flaming rubble. | Can’t even scream, and if they did– who would
come.
Still. It felt like a snow day.
They were in the car. |
Even though she
was his neighb or he met her on Tinder . They’d walked out of their
buildings to head to their date at the same time. | She had blue eyes
and looked like a painting on a 1930’ s fruit crate. They got drunk and
talked shit at the Short Stop. |
He acquiesced.
Then he said a mean thing on the internet. She read it. | I don’t think it’s a good
idea to see you anymore. Take care, she said, on Whatsapp. |
Dad’ s money .
I should say “Them” does not mean Jews. Don’ t let Episcopalians off the
hook. | The heathen Chinese. Magic Johnson is Them. |
Is it my rigid purple cock
spraying a hot salty load on your Miss Clairol hair, because if so you are
really reading my mind. I say nothing.
Woman in purple yoga pants carrying a baby. | The pregnancy weight made her
ass floppy . I want to spread the crack open. |
Charles had
got her a job. Their first date was the Echo Park duck pond. | The American
coots had had babies; they frolicked and whistled. In winter there are
hundreds of these. |
Where do you make the dog food, I asked. I don’t know, he
said. | The Midwest somewhere.
24 hours earlier I was suspended in the Tanon Strait next to a sea turtle.
Warm sighing ocean over coral reefs. You could spend a year looking at one
pufferfish. |
Please take good care
of her .
Six months in she asked if he could see them build a life together . He said
yes. | Do you think you can do that with the career you have, she said. With
what you do.
He felt like he’d been alone his whole life.
Charles got him a job. |
I guess so. He felt if she touched him she’d become unclean. | But can I get one?
Yes, when?
Now?
She laughed again. You take a shower, in 30 minutes I come.
**
When she put her palm on his neck to apply lavender he felt like he was dissolving. |
We can’t believe
this is happening. I have to imagine coming home from work and she’s there
watching some stupid shit like Pretty Little Liars and she’s embarrassed that
she got caught. | And I sit down for a second to laugh at the show in a mean
way but end up getting engrossed and we spend all night like that on the
couch together. I have to think about our kids and taking them back to the lake
where I grew up and watching them swim, watching my dad watch my kids
before he dies. |
I
promised the cute one I could get her into porn. This was so I could get a
picture of her tits. | It’s been less than ten hours and I’ve masturbated to it five
times.
When you ran away from me I called you and called you. Of course, your
phone wasn’t working. |
I want to give some Tinder
slut herpes; I want to kick a retarded baby and dump an old man out of a
wheelchair into traffic. Anyway good m orning.Let’s Go Out for Coffee, She Says
Well no. | There are day date guys who take girls to coffee and museums. Then
there are night date guys girls drink with later. |
Ain’t that a bitch. My sponsor is this document I am typing into.
White page: I feel motherfucking squirrelly.
Deep breath.
Daytime went OK yesterday. | Woke up not hung over. Weird feeling, but good.
Long commute. |
You said: retard,
you’ve seen this same finch fifteen thousand fucking times. It lives here.
What can I say about her. | She was smart. She was funny. |
You get on a roll and you get so
much confidence going that the person who faithfully watches John Stossel
and is ready to give you an earful of Do Not Call just gets hypnotized. You
can’t fake this. | You can go in with the same meter and the same pitch and the
same words but there is something they can smell on you if you’re not
confident, if you’re afraid. If you need the three bucks they’ll snarl at you and
slam the phone down. |
Would have been great to have single girls there but let’s not
go nuts. No one will ever put a woman in a social situation with me again. | I
must milk internet fame and fuck girls who write me until I’m dead. I must
keep posting, or mail bombs.
My frien d’s into politics. |
I also liked her gut. It wasn’ t
doughy . | Wall of muscle behind it. What if someone appraised you this way.
As long as she fucked me who cares.
Anyway she gave me bedbugs. |
MSNBC was on. Every ad for a drug. | When I
turned 120 my pancreas didn’ t work the way it should, until I asked my
doctor about Lumitra. Don’ t take Lumitra if you have a liver or kidneys.
You may experience hemorrhaging. |
I have a facebook message from this actress my brother fucked
back East. She’s out here now. | Once every three months I look at her work on
youtube. Jerk off to it and think: I should ask her out.
I liked your story, she says.
Thanks.
I don’t agree with everything you write about but you’re more compassionate
than you’d think.
I try to be.
I love your brother to death. |
Take it to the park. Sit on the
bleachers by the baseball diamond. | Eat in the sun watching starlings and squirrels. A celebration. |
I was funny and smart too, and it was the first of many
shit jobs where I’d find another funny and smart person and we’d kind of
marvel at “what the fuck are you doing here.”
I’d be bummed out when I showed up for a shift and Glenn wasn’t there. We
had an imaginary ranking system for all the cooks– you start out as a Grill
Knave, moved up to Grill Apprentice, Grill Soldier, Grill Master, Grill
Wizard, Grill Lord. | The highest level was Grill God. Only one man had
ever achieved it and he’d ascended into the Golden Arches and become a
hamburger himself. |
Her husband was rich. She must have enough
to never work again. | Still, a man must pay . Don’ t you get it.
An old Chinese woman backed into my car. |
Nothing ever felt as good as that wind. W isconsin was 1800 miles.
2 0 5 2
When he could no longer walk she carried him. | They were on a broad salt
plain, below sea level. Thick air so quiet you could hear one six legged
white lizard scampering over the mineral crystals, 50 yards out.
They’d come 200 miles. |
His
date had the kale salad. Yeah, I went to a couple Sex Addicts meetings once,
she said. | Dear Lord, forget I complained.
He fingerfucked her against a tree by Echo Park Lake. They went to her
house. |
I miss Chicken McNuggets. Quarter Pounders. | And he
laughed. Like he’d just told his grandson a knock knock joke.
That’s what I miss the least– you know, I used to work there.
Oh really, said Kent, with what seemed like unnatural interest.
Yeah, I was a “senior grill crew” member– I made the Quarter Pounders.
Yes, and you trained the junior crew–
That’s right, how did you know– a grill wizard yourself?
Well I was an entrepreneur after the service, you know. |
Tomorrow we get back on Tinder. Find another one.I Just Want to Eat Asian Ass Forever
Mary. | Mary from AA.. She is 34 years old, she revealed. |
You’re doing a great job keeping it clean.
Thanks.
It feels like an internal hemorrhoid. Are you sure? Well no, she says.
Someone needs to look at it. | I can’t really get in there. Go to your primary
care, get a referral to a surgeon. |
I do what I do but I’d never hurt someone else. This is
wonderful. | Perfect. Having this girl here who I meant to fuck, not fucking her.
Just knowing her as a human being. |
Even then you get
sick of them all being Brazilian. Too few countries poor enough for horse
fucking but rich enough for video. | Y ou have to confuse the the muscle.Slice of Life
The toilet clogged this morning. When the landlady fixed my shower she
also put some giant volume of something– concrete maybe– in the tank. |
The one hot girl in the office.
She made no small talk. Her heart not in it. | The CEO gave a speech, remotely. You may have read
about merger talks. |
The park is pure dirt. Cactuses are wilting. | But
the crew has to come out. My higher power speaks. |
I’ll get robocalls from whoever they sell the debt to
deep into middle age. What are you gonna do.
Look at it this way: a hundred years ago this shit would have killed me. | Now
it’s just a bad week. That and a 50/50 shot at a permanent second shitpipe.
Maybe I can fit a cigarette in it.The Wolf Witch
They were laying in bed. |
This is my fucking bike. Give it back
and I won’t call the cops.
I told El Chuco my plan. | Are you out of your fucking mind, he said. You’ll get
stomped. |
She was black,
dark black. Tattoos. | I poppe d into consciousness out of blackness and my
dick was pushing into her tight pussy and she was moaning. Eat your heart
out, Quantum Leap.
She had flaked on our date. |
I love my job I love my school I am an artist I
am “brainy” I am living my dreams. I am a yogini! I will whoop your ass at
scrabble. | If one of you had hemorrhoids and wrote an essay about groaning in
agony each morning squeezing out hot bloody shit nuggets I’d marry her. If
one of you said I droppe d out of school and I work a shit job and I have to
drink a pint of rotgut at the exact moment the sun goes down to keep my handsfrom shaking… where are you, lover. |
A dude runs up to grab the
one roommate’s fancy camera he uses to photograph birds and takes pictures.
They got a bunch of coke left and they just keep doing this all night until they
finally pass out. I bet the guys who fuck her pussy just blasted in her, no
questions asked.
And the whole time she is screaming her head off, even with a dick in her
mouth, he’s fucking her asshole doggy style and she’s pushing her butt back,
and my buddy, good looking dude, he’s fucked a lot of girls. | Never in my life,
he tells me, has a girl loved dick like this. She’s an animal.
Lucky night for him, she said.
Anyway. |
She
fucked the bartender from Ostrich Farm her second night stayi ng with me.
She made men pay for everything– rent food plane fare. I would have had
to pay for her ticket to come visit me again. | She needed it to feel pretty . But
she was perfect.
She was a coke fiend who took every cock on the continent. |
Even if you shut the blinds the magic hour light
leaks through. A baby smiles at you in the checkout line. | Sees something in
your eyes. It was not lost.Sunday in the Park
Out at the duck pond. |
Now: s tay out . The new songs were about him.
Still, at midnight he sang. | At noon he stopped, exhausted. May came and he
was growing thinner .
May passed and June and the mates at the edge of his voice were less and
finally none at all. |
Tinder is down, at the exact
moment when a pretty girl said hi to me. But her back is to me now. | And
what the fuck would I say anyway. That’s some nice lasagna you have there
in that tuppe rware. |
To start hating Jews now would be apres -
garde.
19. Get woman addicted to drugs
20. | Go to a therapi st, resolve my issues with the concept that I’m
unworthy of love because I’m not rich. Not famous, not
handsome. |
They’d sing Grateful Dead songs then she’d get
naked and he’d rub her back, her ass, her belly. She never did fuck him but
one night she came over drunk and asked: why don’t you love me. | After that
he knew he’d won. He moved on.
In the old man’s picture she wore a white dress with the tops of her tits
hanging out. |
It’s romantic. Well yeah, but they also gang rape corpses.
Look it up; it’s true.
We walked around the pond holding hands. | There are no girls there anymore.
It’s all families. 17 year old Mexicans and 45 year old whites walking with
their 3 year old kids. |
He said Bud was in my yard for years but
never let me pet him. When you got fleas I gave you a bath myself because
you’d have hated the groomer. | I didn’t want you to be scared.
I’m sorry you were hurt and scared when you died, Bud.
I moved your food bowl and I want to put it back. Closed the door and now
you can’t come in. |
His first ten
dollars. He bought lumber . | Taught himself to build. Made a place he could
be safe. |