keep your / hand on the rail / if / all / else fails

<< Monday, Mar. 31, 2008 - 9:44 pm >>
black star in a white night

once there lived a man with a single finger on each hand.

he would clap feebly after a chorus; he ate comfortably with both fingers and licked them after every meal; he tied his shoelaces effortlessly even picked his nose as deftly as any other man.

when he played the piano, the crickets stopped singing and the moon whistled along.