When in doubt, think boddhisatva.
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About a mud wasp’s nest near the beach that a girl mistook for the sandcastle she had just built to show her mama. They inspected it and saw the wasps milling about and her mama asked of the wasp’s some of their special mud wasp honey, which they gladly gave. Then they noticed waves coming,…
Read moreAnd this after mama had gone to lavish descriptions of the salad over the phone, and Sevi had responded “what a beatiful thing, olive oil and lemon!’
Read moreSevi wanted nothing to do with the lentils in the lentil salad Sugi made. Wouldn’t eat one lentil. Assiduously rubbed each piece of salvaged cheese and every olive on her bib (to my voiced displeasure) to remove any trace of lentil. In the hollow of one olive a lentil hid, which she poked at with…
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Once upon a time there a crow made entirely of glass that occupied a place on the shelf in the bedroom of a girl named Pamela. The glass crow had been given her by a wifty old lady when she was very small. Everyone said that the woman had something odd about her and may…
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Taras Bulba, a donkey who worked at a junkyard carrying garbage to various piles was startled out of his monotony one day when the cart he was pulling began to weep and he noticed a little boy named Quigley piled in amongst the garbage. It seems Quigley had been playing hide and seek with friends…
Read more=>Sex in people over 40 – decadent, as in, to what purpose? As if the purpose of sex in one’s reproductive years were reproduction! =>The bean in the nose myth – growing roots into the baby’s brain… =>The magazines shout from every street corner “Look how well I survive!” =>What little technical thing that irks…
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Once upon a time there was a bean named Renata who lived in a bowl of rice and other beans and was cooked up fat and soft for a boy, Horito, who, playing with his food, picked her out and flicked her with his finger out the window. She fell through the air landing on…
Read moreOccasionally Age barks at youth Snarls out corrections Hoards its bone Of piety by scolds Losing face Ignominiously
Read moreThe greatest insult that can be levelled at an artist: you have taken more than you have given.
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