A hundred years ago a clock stopped and its hands show the same hour and minute to the city forever. In the back of a stone house there is a crack in the window and a plaque beneath it reads the hour and minute of the damage. The moment you fall in love. They say [...]
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Here is another episode with a new drawing, plus a few lines grabbed from different parts of Pet Poems and jammed together.
I want to go crazy in the desert with you. I want to stumble ahead, our water cans are empty. I feel the grit of the sand in my teeth. I want us to continue, long after we should have died, until we find an alien landscape, a place of red lakes and stone arches, [...]
Are all of your new year’s resolutions equally ambitious, or is there a large gap between your biggest ever and your smallest ever?
We get most things wrong, and when we try to rationalize them, at best we’re guessing. What mistake of yours made you the happiest?
You must have a few projects half started, a few vows made with friends on windy hilltops at two in the morning, a few adventure brochures stashed under your pillow. Maybe this is the summer you follow them through. What do your dangling projects mean to you?
What is an impossible thing to do, that would not even be very useful, but you wish you could anyway?
Have you ever made a commitment you thought you wanted, then been relieved when it became impossible to fulfill?
Have you ever felt completely frenetic, only to realize you are bouncing around on a short spring? How does the air taste where you live? What is the creepiest present you can receive?


