someone, name an object.
ok-- not that i don't trust you but for expediancy,
i will name the object, by looking about this room.
the object is:
candle-less silver candlestick
1. what is the weather of the object?
2. what religion does it follow?
3. what language does the object speak?
4. what is the secret desire of the object?
5. what is the recurring nightmare of the object?
6. where should the object be placed on the woman, sleeping?
7. describe the temperament of the object on tuesdays.
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| herrings and accordions, indeed |
8. how has the object failed?
9. how does the object instruct us in living?
10. who despises the object?
11. who provides steady companionship?
12. why is the object afraid?
13. with whom is the object competing?
14. what is the object's favorite treat?
15. who pleads the case for the object?
16. what laws are broken by the object?
17. what is the sin of the object?
18. how does the heart of the object get restless?
19. how does one befriend the object?
20. how does one kill the object?
5 comments:
1. silver winter
2. pantheism
3. american sign language (the sounds of silence)
4. to return to the earth from which it rose
5. rust
6. nowhere
7. befuddled and empty
8. there is no failure
9. by containing and reflecting light without embodying it
10. whale watchers spewing from motion sickness
11. wiccans on bad hair days
12. it fears nothing
13. no one -- ever
14. tasty lilac candles
15. justin case
16. none
17. sine? cosine? sincerity?
18. exhaustion
19. simply be
20. someday it shall disappear
Ah, she's back in the game, folks.
1. Fog with sun nearly brwaking through
2. Lapsed Eastern Orthodox
3. Armenian, and some Turkish
4. To be polished clean of tarnishing sin
5. Being melted down and recast as a filling in George Clooney's molar
6. On her forehead
7. Warming a few degrees beyond room temperature
8. Oxidation
9. "Do not attempt to fill empty spaces too quickly. Brightness counts."
10. The man who would kiss the sleeping woman's brow
11. The empty mathbook collecting dust on the shelf below
12. It has forgotten how to embrace melting flesh
13. The cracked and crabbed mirror fallen behind the dresser
14. The touch ot silk
15. The blind nun who lost it 25 years ago
16. Angle of reflection
17. Vanity and idleness
18. When the breeze carries soot from a distance
19. Ask it about its altar ego
20. Excommunicate it
Breaking
1. Humid Houston summer afternoon
2. Vodun
3. riddles
4. to become gold
5. being converted to a halogen lamp
6. her ear for candling the wax within
7. patient
8. didnt save enough wax to retire or transcend its realm
9. flickers
10. Secretly, the candlestick maker
11. Box of matches
12. suddenly awakened by a crash from a dark nights slumber
13. the loaded revolver
14. toothpaste
15. Lady Liberty
16. jay walking
17. lies
18. slips away
19. smiling in its shine
20. turned upside down
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