American Sentences 2009
1.05.09 – Would her Thanksgiving stuffing been this hard to flush had we eaten it?
1.06.09 – My picture’s in the paper a lot & I get to grow my hair out. (M. McClure)
1.06.09 – Michael says he gets writer’s block about 6 or 7 times a day.
1.08.09 – After Carol’s massage, I sing the body piezoelectric.
2.06.09 – Amalio says he’s a U.M. Observer – Unexpected Mexican.
2.07.09 – In the hot tub’s cool pool, sit until my torso becomes one loud pulse.
2.13.09 – Charlie says Almondina sounds like a cartoon character w/ a square head.
2.23.09 – UNFAIR say the cat’s eyes – feather toy on the other side of the spokes.
3.01.09 – Tailgating @ 80 with his bumper sticker: Real Men Love Jesus.
3.02.09 – I tell Almondina It’s as beautiful as a brown dress can be.
3.04.09 – Something inside me wants to beat this cat until he learns to love me.
3.06.09 – Go to Hiroshi’s for Jazz & Sushi – didn’t expect trombone clams.
3.09.09 – Happy Birthday ex-wife – here’s two tickets to Crime & Punishment.
3.10.09 – Weaning her off that Minnesota palate one chili flake at a time.
3.12.09 – Urinal game #6 – push a raisin around with your pee stream.
3.15.09 – Hanging from an Auburn pickup truck, a scrotum – hopefully plastic.
3.17.09 – Augusto’s on-line dating prospect, she’s between 3 and 8 feet tall.
4.12.09 – If she’s gonna stick w/ that wardrobe, she should knock a coupla teeth out.
5.08.09 – From Almondina’s 1st wordcloud: Fire, hurry dear, share one’s nervous flesh.
5.15.09 – She opens my copy erotic poem translations – an old lover’s hair.
5.19.09 – He’s not old enough to have an 18 yr old daughter! You’ve not seen him naked!
5.25.09 – I’m fat, I smoke, I’m on birth control, what are you doing to me?!?
5.26.09 – I tell April to flesh out her poem about anorexia.
6.10.09 – Mom & Dad arrive, Dad natty, but soon his tie’s a pastiche of drools.
6.15.09 – Pop on Cousin Steve: He’s not worth the powder it would take to blow him to hell!
6.21.09 – She can tell I’m recovering – I’ve resumed biting my cuticles.
6.22.09 – At the farm she says: If you eat venison, I’m not going to give you head.
7.27.09 – Fat Grandpa Rutledge falls onto & kills the therapy Chihuahua.
8.06.09 – Her cat’s urp is one more thing that matches the décor in our new home.
8.29.09 – Turns out afternoon yurt sex just foreplay for her beet ravioli.
9.09.09 – Elder couple leaves farmer’s market, each holds a strap of paper shopping bag.
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