Showing posts with label Eight Words. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Eight Words. Show all posts

Sunday, February 22, 2009

I'll have the fillet marsalla (eight words)

waitress
gave us details
about sons
botched
circumcision

Monday, February 16, 2009

wrestler down (eight words)

mother's scream.
three hundred
others stopped
dead silent.

The kid was ok.
We were at a wrestling tournament with 600 kids and their families in the building. It’s not uncommon to see a wrestler crying. Kids get twisted, stretched and bumped all day long and more than a few of them will cry after their match. It’s an emotional and physical investment to fight another person.

What is surprisingly rare is that a kid actually gets hurt during a match. Seriously hurt, broken bones, joints and muscles. Plenty of brusies and scratches but you never see anything more serious. Unlike sports like football and soccer, there is very little momentum when the kids come together, so there is no impact.

Something happened on the mat next to me and the kid must have gone unconscious for a second. His mom let out a howl that was so incredibly haunting as she streaked across the mat towards him.

Now realize people were already yelling at the matches already being fought in the gym. There was easily 300 people in this particular gym waiting for their own matches to come up but there was something in her voice that silenced the entire gym. I looked over and the kid was sitting up, looking confused. Her voice haunted me for the rest of the day.

Reminds me of a line from a Pixies song:
"..the sound that a Mother makes, when the baby breaks...."

Monday, February 09, 2009

mat time (eight words)

dreams beaten from you
on one inch Resolite

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

I watched the whole feed to be sure he was really leaving (eight words)

Marine One,
Take this
burden away.
maybe Texas?

Monday, January 19, 2009

Vonnegut might still be right (eight words)

The Sirens of Titan
The Bitches of Ganymede

Saturday, December 27, 2008

take a walk (eight words)

tripped
in the forrest
and made
no sound

Monday, November 17, 2008

good morning (eight words)

your scowling face.
it exhausts me.
i'm spent.

Monday, November 03, 2008

Fill the void with Viagra ads on November 5th (eight words)

I'm looking forward
to messages
unapproved by
anyone

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

My new tatto (eight words)

if found;
deliver me to
Nebraskan
Emergency Room

Tuesday (eight words)

calls handled
in
the order
they are
received

put ME in coach (eight words)

$100,000,000 and
cant play
in the
rain.

sissies.

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Eight Words from Stall #1 in the Millenium Hotel (eight words)

"Sound like
a couple
of faggots
to me"

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

father to son (eight words)


mud
Originally uploaded by steakbellie.
how exactly
do you
think you're
getting home?

Thursday, September 25, 2008

a short but distinct list (eight words)

i dream
of punching
you in
the eye

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

trapped (eight words)


sometimes
i
just
want
to
go
far
away

it's out there (eight words)

i looked
for it
and i
found it

Thursday, September 18, 2008

The Hopeful Republican Astronaut (eight words)

I can see
the moon
from my
house!

(thanks anon comment on previous post!)

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Neo Foreign Policy (eight words)

i can see russia
from
my
bathroom
window

Thursday, August 21, 2008

winner by default (eight words)

i plan
to
out last
all of
you

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Over My Shoulder (eight words)


Over My Shoulder
Originally uploaded by steakbellie.
times like these
make the hard stuff
easier