Tag: garbage
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Garbage
This man comes into the bookstore, smiling what I think is a pseudo smile, because he’s expecting me to pseudo smile at him, and like the poet who feels guilty for not recognizing his own work, and catches himself throwing it away in the garbage as if it were junk mail, and then recognizes his […]
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Mirrors
At first, shirts and anything with sleeves, began to disappear around the neighborhood. In houses where they’d disappeared from dressers, the backs of chairs, floors, there was no sign of break in. Police were on the lookout for descriptions, checking people’s garbage, garages, the woods, and some of the thrift stores where stolen things sometimes […]