1Gene Gene is the blind homeless man in City Hall Park who asks for your nickels and dimes while really expecting a single. At five 'o clock, he packs away his cardboard sign and folds up his walking stick before changing into his sunglasses and adorning his iPod. Sometimes he stops to grab a coffee before he returns home.

2 Anonymous Observations If you want the truth, I live with drug dealers. But they're good people, really.

Ginsberg, Censored "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by ."

Swallow the Goldfish "...Regardless, we were staring at a couple's tongues while you told me that your dad once swallowed a goldfish in college." / 'Wait, what'"

For Services Rendered "Hit me, he says. I don't believe in fear... Kiss me, he says. A mouth can make things...Leave me, he says, before this body catches up with its rendered services, and I'm gone."

God Particle "because I never talk about it / because I only call on Sundays / because I believe in the god particle that conducts the masses of lesser particles out of sheer law and pre-eminence..."

1 Ugly, Luminescent, Painful, Euphoric short

the science of beauty Looking up toward the sea in the sky, in the white blue haze of a dream, everything drifts. For a long while I stare up into its great white eye and just think about it, thinking it into inconsequence.

WatchDog Something to his right, Eddie thinks at first, then it must be the trash bags lining the abandoned liquor store beside Marcus' apartment house. But, no. It's a dog, actually. A dead dog, lying on top of the trash bags."

1 What Does Catatonic Mean? The Median City educators of Median, Illinois are trying to devise the course curriculum for the upcoming year. The Question: should English students be challenged with one book per year or two? Oh, the challenges of Regents Level education. Satire piece