Part I: Lists
Things that can be thrown:
voices
games
light buildings
spaghetti (to test doneness)
discus or shot-put
also javelin
a fit
a pie
stars
ideas
bouncing blue
spaghetti (dry)
rugs
pots
Ways to burn oneself:
gasoline and lighter
breathing very hot on the skin
sun-travel
carefully
with precision
think
cook
extend
carrying toasted foods across large spaces
play in the sand
check to see if the oven is on
smoke the roach
set the Olympic torch down on ones lap
meditate in a tanning booth
7th grade: ask the popular kid youve had a 2-year crush on to go with you
push the snooze button on the fire alarm
Things that are wet:
crying tarantulas
pier posts
bridle bits
water on the knee
crying bugs besides tarantulas
crying animals besides bugs
dreams, especially when about me
dragons
waterfalls
people today in Providence, esp. when on bicycles
Matt Oberts evening
This is not evil:
Northern witches
the upper parts of Hades
breaking the 11th commandment
enjoying a good litter
lighthearted gossip
S & M
the desire to smite
magic beans
to live backwards
Knievel
ignorance
absolute zero
sighs
Things that arent very tall:
three pennies
my mum
Americas morals
short buildings, small planets, water towers for very small villages
drinks of water
head lice
some tales
some tails
some cuts
some orders
some ardor
a headless cripple
a skyscraper for mitochondria
soft drinks and highballs
Keri Houlihan (49 )
a ducks knees
a tadpoles knees
a grasshoppers knees
other animals knees
Things not to do with a rhinoceros:
this should be obvious -- sex with the horn!
play Ping-Pong
give it sedatives before its bath
teach logic
play dice
admit ones faults
start a band
play Yahtzee
sex with no horn
charge
be rude to its mother
move a piano
play waiter
play doctor
tag
Things that are found in a shoebox:
dirty rubber band
tissue paper
cassettes
shoes that are about to get thrown away because new shoes got bought
things that had previously been lost in a shoebox
baseball cards
Dads ammo
Moms recipe for foot-flavored gingerbread men
smutty Victorian photographs
dust
scraps
cupcakes
shoes
V.E.R.B.A.T.I.M.
maraniss tobin hess kleinberg ebin guitart winard obert
february 23, 1998