from 'Silicon Valley of the Shadow of Death
iAntagonized the parrot into saying something original for once iBaited the trap and lay in wait through what remained of the spring iCollaborated with the enemy it's true but in the hope that our populace would rise up iDecomposed over the course of several years but the hands of my watch are still spinning iEngaged in a conversation with silence and got in the last word iFucked up is what it comes down to and I came here today hoping you'd forgive me iGrew out of that phase and entered a new one of composure and serenity iHate the way my husband kills spiders as if we aren't also bloodsuckers in silk iImposed a curfew on my son and am sitting up late now rocking in the dark iJiggled the handle and the fugitive toilet stopped running iKept myself alive by silencing my cell phone and playing dead iLit my selective service card on fire not out of protest but because of the cold and dark iMade love and then not knowing what to do with it threw it in the dumpster iNeed to learn the constellations before my daughter can speak lest she point and ask iOrdered the journals of Henry David Thoreau on Amazon Prime and am writing to ask when I can expect them to arrive iPuzzled over the clue for awhile before concluding that I was the suspect I was looking for iQuoted Stalin by accident but I meant everything I said iReturned in the fall to find the trap sprung and the beast of leaves sleeping iSauntered up to the bar and ordered a round for the dead miners who needed something to wash the dust down iTaste a new bitterness in my mead and know the court poet is trying to poison me iUtilized an arcane clause that gets us around all these goddamn regulations iVoiced my concerns to a stewardess but it seems we're still planning on taking off with one wing iWoke up from a pleasant dream only to find myself in this nightmare iXpected more from the new interns considering the gift certificates we gave them iYelled up to her and she let her hair down it's turning gray I'm still climbing iZapped the man with a taser and he became filled with a bluish light he resembled Gorgonzola