Entropy and me

1. subsidizing extraction industries helping women victimized by male violence doubling the sign-up bonus for volunteers supporting th...

1. [Relax. Take a deep breath, and read this one as slowly as possible. Go back to the beginning and read it again even more slowly...

An American, entirely clear in spirit, scattering paradigms as he went, discussed the future as though it had already happened, and perhaps...

As You Leave the Room You speak: You say: Today's character is not A skeleton out of its cabinet. Nor am I. That poem about the pi...

"The wagon mounts the hill toward her. She passed it about a mile back down the road. It was standing beside the road, the mules aslee...

"Jesús and his wife wintered every year in their hometown in Michoacán. Like thousands of other couples drawn north by conditions of...

"Once when I was crossing the American continent, years and years ago and we were caught in the prairies without an engine to take us a...

"The prosperous middle classes, who ruled the nineteenth century, placed an excessive value upon placidity of existence. They refused ...

I see we are at the left turn onto US 12 and John has pulled up for gas. I pull up beside him.      The thermometer by the door of the stat...

A few Sundays later I agreed to go with Brooks and our friends to Ayudhaya. The idea of a Sunday outing is so repellent to me that deciding ...

The car, which was a big Renault, a tourer, slowed down and pulled off the autostrada  with Brenda asleep in back, her mouth a bit open and ...

By the evening of Wednesday, August 11, all save for Captain Pollard were safely aboard the Essex . Anchored beside her, just off the Nantuc...

Between Terlingua and Lajitas, the road continues to cross various limestone units of Cretaceous age. After passing white, thick beds of ste...

1. getting in touch with the cable guys swinging the birches testing the waters pushing radical music agendas 2. rewriting the count...

               Friday June 7th. 1805,--      It continued to rain almost without intermission last night and as I expected we had a most di...

The room was soon very very full and who were they all. Groups of hungarian painters and writers, it happened that some hungarian had once b...

Dezi drove her to his apartment on Northside Drive. He drove a tan Celica, and the whole ride he talked on a cellular phone in the deep voic...

They among Englishmen who best love and most admire the United States, have felt themselves tempted to use the strongest language in denounc...

John Cage's "On Robert Rauschenberg, Artist, and His Work" includes, in no particular order, the following sentences: 1.    A ...

One summer day, Merce Cunningham and I took eight children to Bear Mountain Park. The paths through the zoo were crowded. Some of the childr...

Sporting Life The trouble with comparing a poet with a radio is that radios don't           develop scar tissue. The tubes burn out, ...

          "We know that an idea, a novel or a poem, may begin at some point or germ, grow, finding its being and necessary form, rhyth...

1. getting in touch with the cable guys swinging the birches testing the waters pushing radical music agendas 2. rewriting the country...