2026 Sentence Collection

Every day is a new day for me to wear my same shirt. Everything feels funny but there is no joke. All of it is happening simply and magically, even if it is just the sun in the sky, or the moon in the sky. There is the word crater and the word cradle. There is a hill so we have to run down it. There is an old trucker with tired lonesome teeth and lonesome tired lips. There is a business man in my phone who only makes so much cents. There is searching to get an answer and then there is searching to get good at searching. What is the way to get a little closer? What had been so hard to understand about every moment before now? What we don’t like we can just give away. Imagine an ice cream sundae for a brain. Imagine no labels and no prices and look at the thing, and assign the value yourself. I know what it means to me, every sentence, even the nothingness ones. I have a secret and I feel bad and good. I was only touch and only sound. I didn’t know what else to do after so I just went for a walk around the block with a rock tied to a long string. I was trying to get back down on the ground. I am trying to get hands like a metal detector. I made it up but then it was completely true. I like my nail polish best when it’s chipped. I even like this little bruise on my leg. I have been experiencing failure at the library. I am writing poems at the fourth grade level. I felt so sad and alone in a dungeon and I needed a spaceship badly. My big sister basically cut all my hair off. My tiny skirt is not for wearing I bought it to be an object in my room. You can make fun of me but not in that way. You spit in our soup. But the crying barely happened. The crying was a warm shiver. And I came back from work, and my bed was all made. And the blue sky was raining if you can believe it. In service of a greater sensitivity to the kindness of others. In a loop somewhere we’re still there and the music is still playing and my face is all red. Those hours went by like one long second.    close that we could feel the nothing happening between us. we were close to everything and touching nothing. We watched the cows come home on the television.  elbows and teeth and romantic parts of the body like those. I keep four extra sheets of plexiglass in my purse. For some reason I was forceful and ancient and innocent. it is complicated to say but essentially i have been going backwards in time, and then forward in time from there.  I am sorry but you  will have to learn how to tell the truth.