Being Seventeen.

"If I could run into the sky, I'd try. Or maybe I'd let someone else try first, just in case. Yeah, I'd probably let you test it out. Plus, that way -afterward, when we're talking about it we can laugh and cough at how apprehensive we used to be. It's easier like that. Caution. It's easier to be how we used to be. Cautious. I mean myself."

"Hei, Virus found in this message, please delete it without futher reading. Charge was brought against him. He killed a girl, domain of port royal. Thither, then, in august 'one prefers to remain incognito. I am not anxious." (Junk Mail)

"What we need is her girl's face lit in the falling snow of a new December. Red glow of exhaust and her father's quiet brake lights. Trunk full of needles and sap. The scent of him breathing into his hands... Where, this year, is the man hwo might steal a tree for his woman? Who might brighten the house as he turns into the drive, bring laughter from the barely grown depths of the girl's throat when he rolls the window to yell, "Oh Mama, what we've got for you, it's goddamn criminal." -G. Bankowksi

Jane & all the 1993 birds.

(Sometimes it takes a bit of effort to get that pen to work.)

Fly falling bluebirds.

"Now it's day and I've been trying to get that taste off my tongue. I was dreaming of just you, now our cereal, it is warm. Attractive day in the rubble of the night from before. I can't walk in a vacuum I feel ugly, feel my pores. It's the trees of this day that I do battle with for the light. Then I start to feel tragic, people greet me, I'm polite. 'What's the day?' 'What you doing?' 'How's your mood?' 'How's that song?' Man, it passes right by me, it's behind me, now it's gone. I can't lift you up cause my mind is tired, it's family beaches that I desire. A sacred night where we'll watch the fireworks. They frightened the babies and you know they've got two flashing eyes and if they're colorblind, They make me feel that you're all I see sometimes." -Avey Tare

What a coin looks like.

"You gets your just dues in heaven-------Heaven'll be indifferent to this indifferent dog. (Yet, honest indifference were better than cant) ...really. When I hear pious bullshit about justice & democracy and I know the hypocrites are lying in their false teeth, I'm not indifferent to God, I'm indifferent to me-on-earth. I can't think of anything more ridiculous than me on earth - Really!" -Kerouac

Those clouds could birth a whale. (I think it's going to storm.)

I realized something and I'm glad I did.
I had forgotten I had wings.

The whale that fell out of the sky.

" I am watching them churn the last milk they'll ever get from me. They are waiting for me to die; They want to make buttons out of my bones. Where are my sisters and brothers? That tall monk there, loading my uncle, he has a new cap. And that idiot student of his -- I never saw that muffler before. Poor uncle, he lets them load him. How sad he is, how tired! I wonder what they'll do with his bones? And that beautiful tail! How many shoelaces will they make of that!" -Corso

I wonder if men with extra furry eyebrows can get dandruff. And if they have a mustache does it collect there, too? And if it does does that mean it's Christmas everyday?

Disagreeable things as seen by a C student.

"But I should get married I should be good. How nice it'd be to come home to her and sit by the fireplace and she in the kitchen aproned young and lovely wanting my baby and so happy about me she burns the roast beef, and comes crying to me, and I get up from my big papa chair saying, 'Christmas teeth! Radiant brains! Apple deaf!' God what a husband I'd make! Yes, I should get married! So much to do! Like sneaking into Mr Jones' house late at night and cover his golf clubs with 1920 Norwegian books. Like hanging a picture of Rimbaud on the lawnmower. Like pasting Tannu Tuva postage stamps all over the picket fence. Like when Mrs. Kindhead comes to collect for the Community Chest grab her and tell her, 'There are unfavorable omens in the sky!' And when the mayor comes to get my vote tell him, 'When are you going to stop people killing whales!" And when the milkman comes leave him a note in the bottle 'Penguin dust, bring me penguin dust, I want penguin dust-' " -Corso

Birds as people. People as Marcia Polenberg.

"Slow walk. It's a land mine. It's a coal mine. It's a bad thought." -Isaac Brock

I know it's difficult (to make yourself up as go).

"i was going it,
it going to,
it was thinking about going,
going,
it goes. but not anywhere." - Lindsay Farris