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mushrooms

February 24, 2015 by slow shimo

Mushrooms (sylvia plath) The Colossus and Other Poems Overnight, very Whitely, discreetly, Very quietly Our toes, our noses Take hold on the loam, Acquire the air. Nobody sees us, Stops us, betrays us; The small grains make room. Soft fists insist on Heaving the needles, The leafy bedding, Even the paving. Our hammers, our rams, Earless and eyeless, Perfectly voiceless, Widen the crannies, Shoulder through holes. We Diet on water, On crumbs of shadow, Bland-mannered, asking Little or nothing. So many […]

Categories: i like short stories & sometimes poetry, literat • Tags: sylvia plath

bluebird

February 24, 2015 by slow shimo

Bluebird (charles bukowksi) c. 1992, The Last Night of the Earth Poems   there’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I’m too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I’m not going to let anybody see you. there’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I pour whiskey on him and inhale cigarette smoke and the whores and the bartenders and the grocery clerks never know that he’s in there. […]

Categories: i like short stories & sometimes poetry, literat • Tags: bluebird, bukowski

the history of one tough motherfucker

February 24, 2015 by slow shimo

The History of One Tough Motherfucker (charles bukowski) he came to the door one night wet thin beaten and terrorized a white cross-eyed tailless cat I took him in and fed him and he stayed grew to trust me until a friend drove up the driveway and ran him over I took what was left to a vet who said, “not much chance…give him these pills…his backbone is crushed, but it was crushed before and somehow mended, if he lives he’ll […]

Categories: i like short stories & sometimes poetry, literat • Tags: charles bukowski

on seeing the 100% perfect girl one beautiful april morning

February 24, 2015 by slow shimo

On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning (haruki murakami) originally published in An Elephant Vanishes One beautiful April morning, on a narrow side street in Tokyo’s fashionable Harujuku neighborhood, I walked past the 100% perfect girl. Tell you the truth, she’s not that good-looking. She doesn’t stand out in any way. Her clothes are nothing special. The back of her hair is still bent out of shape from sleep. She isn’t young, either – must be near […]

Categories: i like short stories & sometimes poetry, literat • Tags: haruki murakami

the cheater’s guide to love

February 23, 2015 by slow shimo

The Cheater’s Guide to Love (junot diaz) The New Yorker, July 23, 2012 YEAR 0 Your girl catches you cheating. (Well, actually she’s your fiancée, but hey, in a bit it so won’t matter.) She could have caught you with one sucia, she could have caught you with two, but because you’re a totally batshit cuero who never empties his e-mail trash can, she caught you with fifty! Sure, over a six-year period, but still. Fifty fucking girls? God damn! Maybe if […]

Categories: i like short stories & sometimes poetry, literat • Tags: a cheater's guide to love, junot diaz, the new yorker

the embassy of cambodia

February 22, 2015 by slow shimo

The Embassy of Cambodia (zadie smith) The New Yorker, February 11, 2013 Who would expect the Embassy of Cambodia? Nobody. Nobody could have expected it, or be expecting it. It’s a surprise, to us all. The Embassy of Cambodia! Next door to the embassy is a health center. On the other side, a row of private residences, most of them belonging to wealthy Arabs (or so we, the people of Willesden, contend). They have Corinthian pillars on either side of […]

Categories: i like short stories & sometimes poetry, literat • Tags: new yorker, zadie smith

a perfect day for bananafish

February 22, 2015 by slow shimo

A Perfect Day for Bananafish (J.D. Salinger) The New Yorker, January 31, 1948 P. 21 There were ninety-seven New York advertising men in the hotel, and, the way they were monopolizing the long-distance lines, the girl in 507 had to wait from noon till almost two-thirty to get her call through. She used the time, though. She read an article in a women’s pocket-size magazine, called “Sex Is Fun – or Hell.” She washed her comb and brush. She took […]

Categories: i like short stories & sometimes poetry, literat • Tags: glass family, perfect day for bananafish, salinger

runaway

February 22, 2015 by slow shimo

Runaway (2003, Alice Munro) Carla heard the car coming before it topped the little rise in the road that around here they called a hill. It’s her, she thought. Mrs. Jamieson-Sylvia-home from her holiday in Greece. From the barn door-but far enough inside that she could not easily be seen-she watched the road where Mrs. Jamieson would have to drive by, her place being half a mile farther along than Clark and Carla’s. If it was somebody coming to see them, […]

Categories: i like short stories & sometimes poetry, literat • Tags: alice munro

list of books: stuck

February 15, 2015 by slow shimo

in no particular order charles bukowski run with the hunted (harper collins, 1994): the best of Bukowski’s novels, stories, and poems, this collection reads like an autobiography, relating the extraordinary story of his life and offering a sometimes harrowing, invariably exhilarating reading experience. A must for this counterculture idol’s legion of fans. j.d. salinger franny and zooey (little, brown and company,1991): salinger writes “Franny came out in The New Yorker in 1955, and was swiftly followed, in 1957 by Zooey. Both […]

Categories: book lists, literat • Tags: ali smith, contemporary novels, edith wharton, james baldwin, kenzaburo oe, lolita, nabokov

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