becoming a person [one fragment at a time]


6.29.2001

the girlfriend of a restaurant owner plots to take over the world on a radio show. a plundering widow, an aging zoo keeper, and a husband exchange insults in a coffee shop. the grandfather of a talk show host takes care of a baby found in a small airport. a meteorologist is accused of raping a tap-dancing hypochondriac.

6.27.2001

it makes me lose my concentration, i can't think, it makes me like them: his hand sweeps to indicate all the people sitting in their cars, waiting for the lights to change.

6.25.2001

dressed as a monk, he viewed himself as a slumming pope

6.23.2001

did you know how to hold your father when he shook and cried like whales

look at myself in the mirror as i spit insults

sign of the wretch

dear lord, just give me sandwiches.

6.18.2001

eddie and the jesus loves you sunbeams.

charge for jesus!

cnn:

NEW DELHI, India --

Indian police have branded reign of the "monkey man" nothing more than "mass hysteria".
forensic experts and psychiatrists said a "mere figment of the imagination of emotionally weak people"

"injuries too superficial, could have been self-inflicted"

"victims changed their statements. most were hysterical, could not be relied on."

35 victims examined by the experts suffered from trauma.


At the height of the panic, police announced a 50,000 rupee ($1,067) reward
350 complaints of sighting or attacks by the shadowy "monkey man."


fragment: 8:41:33 AM: link

6.15.2001

she drowned herself in a plastic shoebox

6.02.2001

lines found scribbled in a steno notebook. in my handwriting.
ronald rabbit
man of little evils
eating naked
night soil


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