by Ed Schad Tony the Tiger began to groan free of his box, pacing, padding, rushing down to disrupt the morning table. Great though he was, his flakes also great, he increased, deepened, outstretched his cartoon lines out of the world of toys to stride into blood and hair and skin, leaving the cardboard a scratch-and-sniff of musk and urine, a…
by Kenneth Pobo I turn off the computer and watch the moon through a half-closed venetian blind— then head to bed. Sometimes I can’t sleep because I fear dreaming. Last night I dreamed I was teaching again. Sex interrupted my words like a stoplight on a highway. What will I dream tonight? The quiet comforts. No crickets. Maybe I’ll dream of my mother, a…
by Kenneth Pobo My favorite is a list of my top songs. Almost 3000 titles. The shortest are by the DC5. The longest is “MacArthur Park.” The grocery list bores me. We discuss at martini time what I should pick up—the list, a firm jaw. At the store I forget three items. The list has holes. I don’t make a list of chores. That would be a…
by Ed Schad Tony the Tiger began to groan free of his box, pacing, padding, rushing down to disrupt the morning table. Great though he was, his flakes also great, he increased, deepened, outstretched his cartoon lines out of the world of toys to stride into blood and hair and skin, leaving the cardboard a scratch-and-sniff of musk and urine, a…
by Kenneth Pobo I turn off the computer and watch the moon through a half-closed venetian blind— then head to bed. Sometimes I can’t sleep because I fear dreaming. Last night I dreamed I was teaching again. Sex interrupted my words like a stoplight on a highway. What will I dream tonight? The quiet comforts. No crickets. Maybe I’ll dream of my mother, a…
by Kenneth Pobo My favorite is a list of my top songs. Almost 3000 titles. The shortest are by the DC5. The longest is “MacArthur Park.” The grocery list bores me. We discuss at martini time what I should pick up—the list, a firm jaw. At the store I forget three items. The list has holes. I don’t make a list of chores. That would be a…