They had argued the night before, and now he was filling the garbage can with domestic slime, and he sighed and hopped in. And felt at home.
Tagged: Home (473)
T 5428
Hungry optimism followed by the frustration of hopelessness. The kids were stunningly impossible. These hot dogs had better be good, I said.
T 5410
The walls started closing in and he said, Am I hallucinating? and she said, I told you we needed a bigger place, and then they were crushed.
T 5386
The condo has the mustiness of a long life. The smell reminds him of his grandmother before her sex change. After that it was all Old Spice.
T 5383
The toast pops out. Grape jelly? he asks. Only you could make that sound sexy, she replies. And he learns he’ll have to think up dinner too.
T 5379
He felt a pinch and woke and she pushed him down and tweezed another ear hair, and he said, You’re too good, and she said, Your back’s next.
T 5263
I was starving and ran into the kitchen and from the bedroom my wife yelled out, Don’t touch the ham! and I touched the ham and she left me.
T 5249
The night was better than the day. She could dream at night and feel alive. At breakfast her husband says, Where’s the coffee? And he farts.
T 5245
He opened the fridge and studied it. All we have is smelly cheese, he told her. We don’t even have that, she told him. He was sad to hear it.
T 5313
I spent the weekend home alone and did nothing. Then why are you too tired for me? my wife asks. I don’ t have a respectable answer for her.
