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.
JAKE
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'
Birds
There were many things that I might have said, that I would have liked to have said …