I keep imagining
someone slowly pushing a xanax bar into someone
else’s eyeball.
—Tao Lin
I misread the word prisons and thought she said “All the
penguins
are fragile.” Del the
documentarian. I can’t stick to one
subject
because I’ve already spent it in my head. Quick note: I am alive;
I shall purchase a suit
more suitable for reading
poetry with short lines
(must start reading).
188 pounds at Starbucks
on New Montgomery.
Incredible line-up, a
bit intimidating.
“You’re funny,” he says.
“Did you even know the
widow was open?”
I like my awesome new desk
with a Vanilla Bean Espresso
on top. Tedious day
of lady
jazz. Third day of
running.
Overheard: Needs new
notebook....needs new porn....(or poem?)....Pigeons
....Finished Brandon’s e
podes....Read to my mother while waiting for finger-
prints today....Security badge.....Walgreen’s then
cook.....Me laundry.....
Miss you notes from Erin....Should I read a little Dahlen or
write one.....
I’m writing this as
though I invented it, but it keeps getting truer
and truer.
—Alice Notley
