The Jewel on Main
It wasn't your liver, though we had bets whose was worse. The odds always in favour that you’d never go first. It wasn't your heart though it's been broken many times. And it wasn’t your sugar from drinking outside the lines.
JAKE
Hungry Ghosts
This year a group of teenagers has joined in the occasion, a mix of locals and foreigners. They parade amongst the younger children wearing lurid rubber masks: lolling tongues and murderous grins.
An Eighty-Year Joke
And there's so little time to / even consider it with all of the / living we need to take care of.
Afterparty
I just wanted to tell you that the kind stranger who held my hair back at the end of the night got quite a mouthful about how lovely I think you are.
Hometown Tour
And in the daydream, he smiles, he smiles big and a lot, he's happy, I can't believe how happy, over such small things, and he says, that's cool, oh that's cool too, oh that's so cool...
When Meteorologists are Seers Every Cloud is an Omen
I think it's more likely I'll scoop up stones & save them in my shoes
Sugar: a Study in Noir
after Bobby Darin's 'Mack the Knife'
& Nina Simone's 'Pirate Jenny'