I started cooking us fishsticks but
forgot to record the time but also
time is a fiction so technically the
fishsticks are done and will never be
ready.

A Blind Dog crossing an
invisible border into the neighbor's
yard

My boss carries three pens, one black
one blue one red. Everyday we write
her novel in black pen. It's arduous.
He sweats as they write, and every day
discusses a hurdle, the old ones:
a block, a junction with two roads
no one wants to commit to. The new
ones: a loveless marriage, plumbing
issues.

After 700 pages of black pen
you finish.

You scatter seed but do
not weed for we hate it and
season to season the strongest
the ones that rise against all
odds live on although they can-
not make a stew of the victor

You were so busy
deploying apps that
we forgot about the
greatest app of
all this app they
call life

If a doctor prescribed 200mg of nerds it would be a sweet tart.

Smokey bear has a friend named woodsy owl
And it says something that all our wilderness advice comes from cartoon man creatures
who sport great denim.

this is not a format I made up
but borrowed from joy williams'
99 stories of god
who borrowed from

As you get halfway through a book called quit
you begin to notice some turns into strange
diversions until we feel like you are reading
an entirely different altogether less compelling book