The L Train Spitter
By Ariel Kouvaras
After a rip roaring dance party power-hour at a bar in the microcosm of clones in cowboy boots who pay too much for an apartment in what was previously a Jewish ghetto that is Williamsburg, Brooklyn, I waited on the subterranean platform of the L train; but if you ask [...]
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3 April 2008
Tuck Her Beneath Your Covers Got A Love Keep Her There Make Love All The Time
Lipstik_There Is Only One Thing.mp3
Then you get the guy in the fat guy truck–
There was no need to finish. The line erupted in laughter. The man who’d announced that we “got the guy” was waiting for his package at the Maspeth UPS Customer Center, and he was really fat. Since he [...]
24 February 2008
Everybody’s Coming From The Winter Vacation Taking In The Sun In An Exaltation To You
My grandfather died a week ago. Grandpop grandfather, not Granddaddy one. The funeral was on Wednesday and at a lunch afterwards my father gave a speech. It was mainly about how he liked to fix things. That is what my father said about my grandfather, although this is true of both [...]
18 January 2008
Stay Out Super Late Tonight Picking Apples Making Pies
Paper or Plastic?
by Ariel Kouvaras
There is a grocery just a block from the UQAM dormitories. It is called Provigo. Often, I walk there over ice patches and snow mounds and breathe a cold air that burns throat and lung. I loath supermarkets in a way that makes me want to have sex with them and [...]
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