by Ivory Web | Jan 27, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
Instructions for the UninspiredBeen around long enough?Tried and failed?Moved, changed, married, divorced, a make up, a break up?Screamed into a pillow! GOOD NEWS!You can write something with aunique voice.Something that no one else in the worldcould write.No...
by Ivory Web | Jan 26, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
Hay StreetNoon, people roll down the shopstreets, heat of February pullsclothes in, pulls moods up.I've watched shades lighten,faces, dress and in lightstriking down against storefront walls.Banners flutter city news,flapping shows,events, selling the cityinto the...
by Ivory Web | Jan 25, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
Pretty As a Picture“Can I take your picture?” he asked, a cigarette sticking to his lip through the words. The girl seated on the step didn’t respond. She was skinny, he noted with the clinical eye of a professional photographer. He wasn’t trained to see beauty,...
by Ivory Web | Jan 25, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
Something Fishy About Today Dead fish floating on the surface of the sky,your smile is like a red bag of nails,your heart is black mud,your skin – cool as glass.Bubbles fizz in my bottle, theymeasure time,the time in which wedon’t say a word.This silence can kill...
by Ivory Web | Jan 24, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
Dinner Time Here the lapin jumps overPots of boiling vegetablesBites a vein on a chef's armAnd darts through the service doorHe pisses on a waiter's shoeAnd passes sous la tableWhere the president enjoys tête de veauThis skinned rabbitLooks up the first...
by Ivory Web | Jan 22, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
Dam I’ve heard all his stories beforeand I am sick of them.They have no affective contentand they try to persuade the listener to think about himthe same way he would liketo think about himself.I glaze over. I think of a beaver’s damstretching across a...
