I’ve heard of people who can’t live without the sunlight, but I’m fine with the constant clouds rolling slowly overhead, tumbling along in the gray light, the sun more concept then reality as it draws my shadow on the sidewalk with such soft edges that I can finally bear to stare at it without questioning what it is to be a man; I lived in the sunlight once, and it hurt, no matter which way I turned my head.
TAGS: clouds, head, color, sun, reality, sunlightEvery time I tell someone I’m a scriner, their eyes dance about my head and then try to peer into my pockets, looking for my funny hat.
TAGS: hats, head, eyes, pocketsThe reason there are so few kings in the world is due largely in part to a crown’s inability to keep the rain off a man’s head; farmers and good ‘ol boys, however, are in great abundance.
TAGS: rain, head, kings, abundance, crowns, farmersIt was Timmy’s incurable case of misshapen head that led to his love of hats.
TAGS: hats, head, timmy, misshapenHenry feared his best ideas somehow drained out from his head while he slept, pooling in the back of his neck until finally he would sweat them out onto his pillow, which was always cold and damp when he woke up in the morning.
TAGS: Henry, head, morning, sweat, ideas, pillow, sleepingMiss Jane wiped the splatters of blood and carvings of pumpkin from her broadsword, and, lifting the madwoman’s head from the ground, she looked into her dull eyes and said “I promised another that I would end your pain, so I hope you can consider this a civic duty.”
TAGS: Miss Jane, polite violence, blood, head, justice, halloween, civic duty, pumpkinMy tummy’s filled with teeth that grind, my head is filled with butter-
TAGS: anxiety, head, teethI would not recommend spending too much time living inside your own head, it’s far too cramped for one thing.
TAGS: head, manky, clutteredAs things turned out, Henry’s horoscope mistress turned out to have her head in the stars.
TAGS: Henry, head, mistress, stars, horoscopeIt sounds funny until you actually see one and then it’s not.
TAGS: head, jar, terrifyingSecretly, Henry called them his Barbie girls, on account of how easily they lost their heads.
TAGS: Henry, head, barbiePatty shook the young boy’s head and was satisfied to see it sounded as empty as it looked.
TAGS: head, empty, satisfyingThe young sergeant rubbed his sore head while listening to his D.I. shout, “… and next time you have thoughts about the innocence of those Spice Girls, you can damn well keep those thoughts to yourself!”
TAGS: spice cops, head, innocence, spice girlsI’ve had the phrase Honky Tonk Chicken bouncing about in my head all day.
TAGS: animals, head, beginnings, honkAlthough he’d never seen the Doves of Ambiguity, Peter worried that the two nesting in his head were only the scout birds, and that one day as dusk was settling in on his sleepy little imagination, the whole flock would arrive, squeezing into his head to begin building their summer nests.
TAGS: birds, head, doves of ambiguity, peter, imagination, dusk, nest, flockIt’s just a little freaky how many words are rattling around inside my head.
TAGS: words, head, full, rattlingPaul Volcker, the now retired Federal Reserve Board Chairman, once gave me a two dollar tip for delivering breakfast to his hotel room; if I remember correctly, he searched for quite some time for the slot in my head, thinking I was some sort of bank.
TAGS: head, bank, ridiculous encounters, paul volckerAfter the accident, Buck was troubled when he realized that all the pretty girls now reminded him of old Army buddies—or was it the other way around?—he couldn’t be sure, and that fact alone scared him shitless.
TAGS: head, confusion, accidents