American Sentences 2003
1.10.03 – Nope not two hawks circling in the sky one & a windshield speck.
1.12.03 – When I tell her the sauce on breakfast eggs is pesto she says: Bismol?
1.14.03 – Peaches! she said after shopping, not: I like nectarines and bitches.
1.23.03 – Mom’s advice translated poorly: The stars incline but they do not force.
1.26.03 – Aside from the potential poisoning did you enjoy dinner?
1.30.03 – @ the library Blunck warns: I wouldn’t bring up the morning penis.
2.01.03 – 1st Israeli astronaut immolates over Palestine, Texas.
2.20.03 – Sherry Marx reports of the peace protestor who broke a man’s nose.
2.22.03 – Raphael says why didn’t they just take off the S make it Laughter?
2.28.03 – Tonight Doreen Mitchum said: D.C.’s Hollywood for ugly people.
3.08.03 – At the Supermall: Hey check it out Ozzy Osbourne Lego People!
3.21.03 – Ground TOTALLY pink from fallen blossoms except for piles of dog shit.
4.01.03 – P.O.W. freed her home town in West Virginia Palestine.
4.07.03 – Found in Iraq: WEAPONS of MASS DESTRUCTION or maybe pesticides.
4.09.03 – Maintenance man leaves a note says: …can’t fix your faucet its threads are striped.
4.10.03 – Geof tells us after the marathon he went home to service the dog.
4.17.03 – MAYFLY MIGRATION headed upStuck Barbara says: Don’t open your mouth!
4.23.03 – Soldier from Georgia tried to smuggle Iraqi gold-plated AK-47.
4.24.03 – On the next day three red-tailed hawks circle above the murder scene.
4.30.03 – Wednesday’s last April wind liberates innumerable white blossoms.
6.03.03 – Arkansas women dies leaping through her sun roof a mistaken rapture.
6.03.03 – A man dressed as Jesus loses twelve helium-filled blowup sex dolls.
6.09.03 – Is it Breakfast of Champions or Bodhisattva of Compassion.
6.14.03 – Is it an Australian kiss when graffiti says: Kiss Me Down Under?
6.20.03 – Not stars in your eyes ritual mustard seeds thrown by Christopher.
6.26.03 – Nude on the beach viewing the nude women while sand fleas eat my feet.
6.28.03 – She shoots me in the ear I shoot her in the eye our June waterfight.
7.03.03 – Fireworks stand don’t sell W.M.D.’s – Brian says: Try the tribe.
7.17.03 – My binoculars scan the coastal mountains then WHOA! A GIANT EAR!
7.17.03 – Custom restrictions! Good thing we’ve no embryos or animal semen.
7.17.03 – Mountains receding from the ferry! Rebecca looks & overboard spits.
7.21.03 – NO! those aren’t shit stains on my journal just remnants of dried plum.
7.23.03 – We hit a little bump in the driveway Ma says: Ow Pinga Jesus!
7.26.03 – Shape of trees that overhang the boulevard bent by path of trucks.
8.09.03 – Stop sign on Wilson west of Kedzie someone put sticker says: BREEDING.
8.16.03 – Powwow elders lead the Kaya dance – their grandsons wear football jerseys.
9.03.03 – Pro-life murderer Paul Hill today executed in Florida.
9.20.03 – Last guys @ this campsite liked Corona tuna and Chef Boyardee.
9.21.03 – A south gust jars loose a sunlit strand of spider web and summer is gone.
9.21.03 – Blizzard of firewood seeds r i s i n g into thin blue September sky.
9.22.03 – Holly Patterson took RU 486 and aborted herself.
9.30.03 – Watch you walk after stolen noon kisses – no one sees me adjust myself.
10.02.03 – Slaughter man w/ a white cowboy hat in his holster - a black celphone.
10.07.03 – He covered his hard hat with stars & stripes stickers & one from Hooters.
10.14.03 – w/ my middle finger feel your pulse on your g spot or is it mine?
10.27.03 – We play ding-dong-ditch on the Russians w/ our cock-eyed Jack-O-Lantern.
11.09.03 – So where does that leave us? I don’t know - her eyes water/cat’s lapping gets loud.
11.12.03 – Here’s to the white Christian van won’t stop for pedestrians – brown splash of warm chai.
11.17.03 – Our Jack-O-Lanterns were like two old men dying in a splash of guts.
11.22.03 – w/ serious faces they all wait outside the hospital & smoke.
11.22.03 – Almost as loud as next-door neighbor’s rap - whistling of Pop’s hearing aid.
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