Gerald Nicosia – Ferlinghetti
for Neeli Cherkovski
Lawrence never let me treat him like a famous man
I sat down to interview him
a green 27-year-old Midwestern kid
He said, “You need...
Silvio Donà – Serial Killer
Rocco did not have any particular reason to hate old women.Yet, he hated them in a ferocious way.Only seeing one of them...
Antonia Buizza – Angela
“Angela, don’t run: you know that after you are going to have a sore throat”.“Ok, mum, I’m coming”.Mother and daughter went back...
Gertrude Stein – Johnny Grey
What did he say. I was disagreeing with him.
He said he didn't have it by his side.
He said.
Hurry.
Eat it.
I am not going to talk...
Antonia Buizza – Immortality
I met Maicol at primary school, but only three years ago I understood how worthy he was.
He went within a split time from barely...
Antonia Buizza – Friends
“What time is it?”
“A quarter to nine already”.
“What shall we do? Shall we order?”
“I would say yes. I think we have waited too long...
Kate Chopin – Désirée’s Baby
As the day was pleasant, Madame Valmondé drove over to L’Abri to see Désirée and the baby.
It made her laugh to think of Désirée...
T. S. Eliot – Eeldrop and Appleplex
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Eeldrop and Appleplex rented two small rooms in a disreputable part of town. Here they sometimes came at nightfall, here they sometimes slept, and...
James Baldwin – The Blind Men and the Elephant
There were once six blind men who stood by the road-side every day, and begged from the people who passed. They had often heard...
Joseph Conrad – The Lagoon
The white man, leaning with both arms over the roof of the little house in the stern of the boat, said to the steersman--
"We...
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Ra Sh – The Narcissist
All his mirrors were women.
They displayed him with breasts
and vaginas and flesh buds.
Desperate,
he approached a blue lake
to see his male splendor.
His cock-a-doodle-do
his rippling muscles
his...
