American Sentences 2004

What are American Sentences?

3.09.04 — It’s a long swim to Cambodia from Hudson River Spalding Gray.

3.12.04 — After the terror bombings cel phones ring next to corpses in Madrid.

3.15.04 — They move slow around the old candy stuck to downtown sidewalk these ants.

3.16.04 — After manic pursuit by three eventually seagull drops the bread.

3.17.04 — He speeds past fatal car crash site in general direction of Venus.

3.17.04 — The 150 drives by on D St. & all the woodfrogs go silent.

3.21.04 — Erections lasting 4 hours may need immediate medical help.

3.23.04 — FLASH! up silver March Tuesday morning chain-link fence — a robin shadow.

4.03.04 — That’s not a fly on the lip of the urinal – bellybutton lint.

4.06.04 — Cut w/ a kitchen knife Mexican self-inflicted caesarean.

4.14.04 — Told he was killing KPLU he said: I don’t hear any dead air!

4.19.04 — RR says: I don’t trust a place that does not have any refried beans.

4.22.04 — If war happens & you don’t see coffin photos is the soldier dead?

4.28.04 — In front of EPA office This Park Has Been Sprayed w/ Roundup Pro.

5.08.04 — I’m on 2nd when the dream single’s hit & almost jump out of bed.

5.19.04 — Ma describes Mrs. Klein’s hoojeewatata — launches something from her nose.

5.23.04 — Frightened about the concept of Mom’s yoya towel — we do laundry.

5.24.04 — In the crook of her sleeping elbow stuffed bear she named Philip is trapped.

5.25.04 — Slaughter is green May maple leaves bending under the weight of morning piss.

5.30.04 — He says: You gonna play country music in there? I say: What country?

5.31.04 — Ice cream truck malfunction — turk the turk the turkey can’t get out of the straw.

6.02.04 — Slaughter is the smell of riverside dog shit ripening in June sun.

6.03.04 — Eyeing the brand new sheet w/ nothing but bad intent the black white cat.

6.07.04 — RR’s school sneeze story when she had no Kleenex, used a kotex.

6.08.04 — Look! a squirrel in the street, no — a brown plastic bag pushed by June wind.

6.09.04 — Tumeric rice, view down elevator shaft we’ve got same color spit.

6.19.04 — @ C & 8th the sign says copies & fax not cojones & fries.

6.29.04 — On I-5 the green thing to do: tree massacre for more carpool lanes.

6.30.04 — Startle! over shell station — the wort moon — I go to safeway for cheespuffs.

7.08.04 — Cat kisses on my July morning eyelid just after he urped.

7.09.04 — The poem is being written on stationary — let’s watch it move.

7.11.04 — Immolate bully in the dream w/ gasoline on calf-high sweat socks.

7.12.04 — View of Slaughter sunset lasts ’til the green arrow permits his left turn.

7.16.04 — Martha Stewart’s prepared for her jail term — she’s on a low carb diet.

7.20.04 — It’s not the light signaling safety for blind people but a sparrow.

7.26.04 — At the Bon workshop his black t-shit said: Pigeons should not eat chili.

7.27.04 — Fiona sings my arm hairs straighten — raven shadow on the teepee.

7.28.04 — Crazy poet cold shower morning Rays says: I’ll keep my scrotum clenched for you.

7.29.04 — Kim Coleman goes to Tofino today comes back with princess armpits.

8.01.04 — It may be the crow feather in his hat or the antennae of his CEL phone.

8.01.04 — Lha Khu tumor healing ceremony — on his lap potato chips.

8.03.04 — A man can’t whistle through clenched teeth but sees clearly through eyes blured by tears.

8.03.04 — Wickaninnish breakfast after the wedding: salmon sausage & cake.

8.07.04 — At Good Ol’ Days man’s t-shirt says: I’ve got the dick so I make the rules.

8.11.04 — Thousand sparks in front of me on the freeway pavement — cigarette butt.

8.12.04 — Non-native vegetation washing up on Alki Beach — syringes.

8.16.04 — Wind in his Monday hair so close this bike ride to the southbound freight train.

8.21.04 — cnn.com headline: Alcohol Machine Causing Buzz.

8.26.04 — Darel as a kid gave others kids chew told ‘em it was German candy.

8.27.04 — Approaching midnight no sentence just pabst & jalapeno cheetos.

9.03.04 — He smiles w/ big white teeth during tenor solo his hat says JAZZ.

9.05.04 — Sunday 6A cat wake-up call: final cries of dying songbird.

9.08.04 — No tradition of satori in America I say — chili dogs.

9.10.04 — Bees eat the innards of a mouse just next to John L. Kerouac’s grave.

9.11.04 — At 28 Fort Square Irene lets us walk on Olson’s former floor.

9.16.04 — Twirl — cloud of feathers under viaduct — Amtrak picks off a pigeon.

9.22.04 — Street poster said: NO VOTE LEFT BEHIND not NO COYOTE LEFT BEHIND.

9.24.04 — Headline says: Body of Missing Sara Lee Executive Found Frozen.

9.25.04 – @ EndFest 13 his T-shirt says: My Other Ride is Your Mother.

9.27.04 — The Autumn crow corpse on the Slaughter sidewalk near the NO OUTLET sign.

10.04.04 — 167 South D.O.T. guy — shovel full of raccoon carcass.

10.12.04 — A roll decomposing in a parking lot puddle — breakfast for crows.

10.17.04 — Mexican boy’s face when his Dad tells me someone stole his underwear.

10.17.04 — Flock of starlings in front of sunset Olympics — no, factory smoke.

10.24.04 — CRACK! the dropped chestnut hits 2nd St. opens into breakfast for crow.

10.30.04 — Is it a wave crashing or a peal of thunder from across the sound?