In my dream, I am cutting the lawn at my grandfather’s house.

It was the liver and the lungs. He had no idea how long the mundane and predictable episode would last…

Osamu Dazai committed suicide with his beautician mistress in 19… The lovers drowned themselves in the cherry tree-lined Tamagawa…

near the end Dashiell Hammett was a hermit, his house was a mess, falling apart, and Lillian Hellma… had to take care of him.

The musician hated fame, the thought of it made him sick. Bob Dylan wanted to cut

is stretched across the sky dove white against stark blue. down here people move around. they are busy and do not look

this leg a genetic mutation bent askew a latitude of pain. take

As the end draws closer with its thin dim light things begin to disappear. I have sections of my brain hijack…

I see dead bodies rising up as if under some mystical persuasion, bodies going home,

Leeza dances drunkenly near the ed… Death is two inches away. I see her tumbling end over end a broken screaming windmill.

reading the news he discovers the boys at NASA are using something called

sitting here very quietly listening to the world. the rhythm… thump of a drain drop repeated fro… far off a car laboring to reach di… the beat of a bass

nothing here. sky a lint colored marmalade. outside a man in a blue tee shirt

I take a suitcase of downbeat irrelevancies and memories with me through

In school they taught us things not compatible with the real world. It is said