American Sentences 2010

What are American Sentences? (Sentence highlights from 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 & 2013.

1.3.10 – New year’s first spoonerism, fruit flies in the bag with the yotting ram.

1.9.10 – This time she w/ a helicopter dream seizure – I take over controls.

1.22.10 – Grace experienced as a shiver, a body shiver in Latihan.

1.23.10 – She’ll wash cast iron skillet only if she needs butter for popcorn.

1.24.10 – Radio ad line: It’s as accurate as a rectal thermometer.

1.25.10 – A bureaucrat’s someone great finding reasons why they can not help you.

2.7.10 – Don’t homosexuals have annual sex? – no, that’s married couples.

2.10.10 – Sign in Charles Potts’ kitchen window: Loose women tightened here.

3.2.10 – A sure sign she is starting to feel better, she’s resumed her tweezing.

3.7.10 – Setting sun from U bridge leaves auras of evergreens on my irises.

3.16.10 – Not a cigarette butt, slice of magnolia blossom dying on the sidewalk.

3.20.10 – The Hindu cleaning lady is stealing bathroom tiles in a dream.

3.22.10 – Republican who yelled “Baby Killer” says comments were misconstrued.

3.26.10 – Census for homeless: Targeted Non-sheltered Outdoor Locations: Tinsouls.

3.27.10 – I’d call her Crabmondina but that sounds too much like an appetizer.

3.29.10 – Are female suicide bombers greeted in heaven by virgins too?

4.16.10 – Rocket to Venus: The cheapest kim chi pierogies in Baltimore.

4.23.10 – Seattle courtesy: truck driver waits as crows move chicken carcass.

4.26.10 – To a cat, jumping over your head during yoga – good idea.

4.27.10 – Let go of leash, the dream dog’s obliterated – pile of rusty fur.

4.28.10 – The sun in Seattle is a lot like a refrigerator light.

5.4.10 – Brussels Metro – accordion busker and a Lady Day ringtone.

5.6.10 – She can’t hear her cell phone chat above his French accordion version of My Way.

5.9.10 – Trying to keep raw eggs in the strike zone very hard in today’s dream.

5.17.10 – Plain blunt-ass mammal reason w/ the light of luminous intelligence.

(Michael McClure)

5.19.10 – Another piece of your Beast Face on the floor – clay faces half buried outside.

5.21.10 – In the Siskiyou morning open drapes reveal bare naked Madrones.

5.25.10 – Someone threw the “Be Good to Mother Earth” cup on the sidewalk – I crushed it.

5.26.10 – In the dream we all have assault weapons but nobody gets vato soup.

5.27.10 – The Rune of Joy did not foresee Tupelo’s cat urp on the prayer rug.

5.31.10 – Man inadvertently shoots himself in the testicles – “an accidental discharge.”

6.5.10 – On the 8 she points out the Anger Management Clinic – I say FUCK YOU!

6.7.10 – No matter I picked this poppy seed from my pantleg – it’s still tasty!

6.19.10 – At the Fremont Fair brain on a string hangs from a pole – he can’t reach it.

6.19.10 – Eleven year old Hank says I hate it when drag queens don’t even try!

6.19.10 – Hank’s flick review: Avatar is just Pocahontas with blue people!

6.20.10 – Seattle solstice: Chihuahua shivers in cold rain outside starbucks.

7.1.10 – Sara says dying her hair makes her look younger – Ma says From the scalp up!

7.6.10 – Feels like summer’s first day – a hornet crawls into a Ford truck rusthole.

7.10.10 – Though my snatch of lavender blossoms sends the branch bobbing – the bee hangs on.

7.11.10 – It looks like a Bahaman prison will give the Barefoot Bandit shoes.

7.13.10 – From beyond the grave she sends me a social networking request.

7.16.10 – Michael going through his address book tells me: This is like a graveyard.

7.17.10 – You can tell much about a place by the attire of pawn shop mannequins.

7.18.10 – In the dream she fears the tortoise w/ the gift of electricity.

7.24.10 – Not an ugly Rainier cherry in a bin-pulled fistful – gnarly finger.

7.30.10 – He has the ugliest dreadlocks in history – I want to clear cut his head.

8.2.10 – Bring a gringo to PCC you get Andale! Andale! Roasted Mole!

8.4.10 – We leave in-laws at our house while we honeymoon – kitchen spider webs.

8.17.10 – Those bugs always there or we only notice when they zigzag a sunbeam?

8.19.10 – Was that hummingbird chasing crow over a roof on 52nd?

8.21.10 – Honored company when they bring out Aunt Louise’s teabag squeezer.

8.30.10 – How cool was their alphabet she says at the mission looking at cattle brands.

9.2.10 – The bumper sticker says COEXIST and people pass her left & right.

9.2.10 – The Japanese Garden was lovely except for the barbed wire and dead rats.

9.4.10 – At her Bolinas house Joanne tells us: I have never used an I.T.M.

9.17.10 – At the Stranger Genius awards we see her leather skirt, mourn both dead cows.

9.23.10 – Day after we put Tico down, busker plays Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door.

10.2.10 – Emily Kendall Frey said: Your self-hatred is losing its precision.

10.14.10 – If I put vitamins in the compost bin will worm castings be yellow?

10.17.10 – L. Ron Hubbard is a cross between Red Skelton and Mussolini. (Michael McClure)

N.3.10 – Maybe this global warming thing ain’t so bad – November raspberries.

N.20.10 – Want to call her and tell her I forgot my cell phone but I forgot my cell phone.

N.28.10 – Eze tells us Never underestimate a dick in cold water.

12.2.10 – Ramon, you can put your pants and shoes back on, the Latihan’s over.

12.5.10 – I’m almost halfway through the dream sausage sandwich before I taste it.

12.8.10 – Headline for Is Oprah Lesbian interview: “Oprah Unplugged.”

12.12.10 – Pop tells Barbarita when he’s dead she can go yell at his grave.

12.15.10 – How many fucking days does it have to rain before my car gets clean?

12.17.10 – Two unwanted things on our porch we must discard: dead rat, yellow pages.

12.18.10 – Jarret asks Meredith at the last Plop: Is pie your power animal?

12.21.10 – You go to Florida to retire, you go to Seattle to die.

12.24.10 – She makes an ornament, he asks if she’s taken her thorazine.

12.28.10 – Everything he says in his phone chat’s in Igbo except for “Craigslist.”

12.30.10 –What’s Allen Ginsberg doing stuck in a canyon cutting off his right arm?