Michele McDannold's Blog, page 6

Instant Pussy: looks strange but tastes just fine

Polite was taught to me at a very young age as keep your fucking mouth shut–anything beyond please and thanks, lid on it. I remember quite vividly the struggle this produced in even asking for basic things. Like, “May I use the restroom?” or “Can I have something to drink?” I would sit there, the…

prattle

is anyone going to call me on this bullshit we’ve corn growing out of our ears like jewels i hear nothing and he sees only me don’t make me a muse, my friend

borderland: an area of overlap between two things.

days that remove themselves from the regular–monumental, no. askew just right

02/09/15 Trinidad, Colorado the ol’ Savoy, best post office I’ve ever been in & the eyes have it…

Trail’s End

  Trinidad, Colorado 02/09/2015    

food for thought

define reasonable (while listening 2) softly i regret to tell you off in the distance a muffled rumble, close. your eyes & it (do you hear that) w i l l    v i b r a t e    * t h r u* don’t. depend. too hard. on the adj. ectives time is…

City of Trinidad – Burlington Route

gin and tonic minus the tonic

west coast notebook entry #9 (being so weird at the party) i have to wonder why the heck i’m here oh you midwestern people, aren’t you so quaint. oh you writer people, aren’t you so cute with your angst & rebellion. um, how can you hear anything at all in this room bellowing above a…

it’s one thing…

i want to love Meredosia–it’s my hometown. It’s one thing to come home to visit and find the town decimated as if a war or the apocalypse happened while you were gone. Were the residents sleeping? Are they okay? Is there anyone left? ..recalling though, oh yes–it’s just the ramp coming through, access to the…

Steel Reserve 211 (High Gravity)

trading a brown bag beer from the rite-aid for a cold one in my sweater.. i told you these are important decisions. gliding down sunset blvd when the gradients are just right the differently-abled humps her walker at the bus stop blowing devotions at the moon sky & all the while that twinkle in her…