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Paul was an ingredient in marshmallows, gummy bears, yogurts, Jello, Peeps, sour cream, hard and soft capsules for medicines, dietary/health supplements, syrups, jello shots, ice cream, frosting, lozengers, et cetera.
Add comment 29 April 2009
Paul was Ford Ranger (blue) with extended cab, stickshift, & benchseat. The jump seat behind the driver’s seat had his duffelbag stuffed with sweatshirts & socks & a sixpack wrapped in teeshirts so that the bottles would not clink during smuggling. Cassette tapes were everywhere, though no music was playing as he cruised along 22.
This was the way to visit his sister Loriane, written on the back of a solenoid box in permanent pen; bridges over rivers, a road winding round a mountain.
Paul had never visited this neighbor city where his sister colleged. He only had a picture of it from a postcard she had sent. The old stone building set in a hill — this is what he would look for when he got into town.
Add comment 4 April 2009
Paul was the organizer of reindeer games. Monopoly was their favorite game & Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer their favorite movie. So intertwined were the two, new rules had been adopted into the game, & cues from the movie changed play. New pieces were tiny & misshapen handmade clay lumps representing their favorite characters, a white ball as a tooth for Paul to be Hermey, guy’s favorite was a little gold snake shape for King Moonraiser, the winged lion king for the island of misfit toys, and a red blob as Rudolph’s nose for Lorraine.
“Go to Jail” was “Go to the Bumbels Cave” and the property spaces had new paper names tapped to them, like Rudolph’s House, the Island of Misfit Toys, and Yukon Cornelius’s Pepermint Mine.
Set out in his living room with looping Christmas movies playing, Paul, Guy, and Loraine would spend days in these matches rolling dice & drinking sodas, snow flurries falling outdoors.
Add comment 14 December 2008
Paul was labeled: snack size, fun size.
But the nutritional facts included were actually for full-sized treats.
A tendency to lie about eating.
2 comments 25 October 2008
Paul was office working, though his mind was mostly on a snack. Meaning this morning the office smelled like hash browns (because this floor of cubicles is directly above the cafetorium) & it was incredibly distracting for work efforts. Mostly mouth watering & dreaming of the fried potato treats.
Paul plugged away at his tasks in attempted ignorance of home fries.
1 comment 30 September 2008
Paul was the child’s area of a hospital waiting room, small table with red&green plastic chairs, a fingerprint smudged television, monopoly & chutes&ladders missing pieces, his yearyounger sister playing cards with him, jacket under the chair, gum wrappers, empty water bottles, broken crayons, his crazy eight hand was poorly stacked, mostly drawing multiple cards drawing multiple cards until a play, until Aunt Lori’s name is called, the windows don’t let light in they reflect fluorescents each large pane a mirror back into jumping jittery legs, seating shifting positions, pretending everything is okay, draw again, draw again, shoes echo on tile, doors open automatically, fingernails disappear, a colouring book half filled.
Add comment 27 September 2008
Paul was a twisted telephone cord. Whiteness under a layer of fingerprints
the wire twisted around the finger.
Add comment 18 September 2008
Paul was on the phone. It sounded like:
[911 dispatcher]: Is your Aunt conscious, can she move?
[Paul]: I dunno, (yelling & coughing)
[911 dispatcher]: Hello? Is anyone there?
Add comment 16 September 2008
Paul was questioning the viability of such a form as a story. Did it have enough hold to keep readers reading? Was repeating enough? Do you really know who you are? Paul was uncertain? As in, present a teaser or an antidote upfront to entice, hold, keep people interested? What if the little comments were the most interesting parts?
Perhaps it was not enough? The need for clear narrative laid out, edible? But like everything else? Why post everyday? Why create such schedules? Can long word(k)s sustain themselves on the net? Can creating a pile of less make more? Paul was in the kitchen screaming? Paul was was not? Paul was in his den writing with a pen?
“form gathers force?”
What is training in writing? reading? A notebook, blue? Fire? the mozzarella sticks in the toaster over? Add whiskey? A husband leaving you? spacing for things unsaid? a dislike of persons who punctuate with excessive question marks? always four lies? sentences as stanzas? Thus spoke Paul? As in to the operator on the telephone?
He had a ghostwriter working for him? Coo coo clock in the kitchen? Where were we? To fill in the memories? In sweatpants? A stingray bike? blue? It certainly looked like work? But unpaid? Paul was unrevised? An action of pulling apart? Strings of melting cheese? Ironically that was her job? Is that irony? It was not true anyway?
Add comment 15 September 2008
Paul was it took time for information to develop; thoughts & events to be transmitted through the wires; actions to be carried out.
Add comment 11 September 2008
Paul was the one who found Aunt Lori. Passed out at the kitchen table, cigarette smoldering the enamle table top.
Add comment 6 September 2008
Paul was a toaster oven. You would be surprised with hom much a toaster oven
can be used. In fact, when snack time approached, most items were quickly toaster ovened to the proper temperature.
Add comment 5 September 2008
Paul was garbadgecan with a lid that rises when you step on the footpad.
Add comment 3 September 2008
Paul was forgetting details, such as empty alchol bottles or the bar-like atmosphere of the kitchen, because he was too young to notice the prescence of such things.
Add comment 26 August 2008
Paul was the weathered white aluminum storm door with a too tight spring that pulled the door
crashing shut.
Add comment 25 August 2008
Paul was a sponge holder. It was a frog with it’s mouth open, as to accomidate the sponge.
Add comment 19 August 2008
Paul was how everything Aunt Lori cooked for him came from the toaster oven.
Add comment 18 August 2008


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Add comment 3 November 2008