Five by
Mark Young
A gracious residential area
A tiled foyer leads into a
golf course perched above
the Mediterranean. Lipstick
pink might not be the right
choice for working at a start-
up, but we clearly don’t know
how to make any better life
choices, especially when
someone has just teed off &
the ball is heading down the
hallway in our direction. Will
the dealer take the car back?
How long does mediation
usually take? What’s that say-
ing about a piece of string?
suddenly last samurai
She was doing well in
school until whispers
of inappropriate behavior
by those that swirled
around her swirled
around her. The train
stopped at Castlemaine,
& police took her off.
Marine One, engines
roaring, was waiting
on the South Lawn.
Event cognition
The neural network is formulated
with rare, non-genetically modi-
fied, blue tomatoes. The interior
is luminous white. We came here
to scarf down some cheeseburgers
on the cheap; but just the walking
into the elegant main dining room
made us forget what we came for.
A line from Vaslav Nijinsky
I dance. Endorphins are released.
They boost my mood for a couple
of hours. Later I read that people
who buy cryptocurrency say they
feel the same thing. That doesn’t
improve the content of this sub-
reddit which I thought was to in-
form about cryptos, not speculate
on any highs they may bring. It’s
how Sergei wants to pay me from
now on, which is why I'm trying
to inform myself. This blockchain
sounds like the end of dancing. I
felt the approaching death when
I first heard about it. Such a pity
that hearing is the last sense to go.
Bifocal
Today the post-
woman brought
me a letter
addressed to
the person who
lived here be-
fore me. We
share the same
name. I don’t
recognize it.
Mark Young’s most recent books are from 1750 words, from SOd Press and sorties from Sandy Press.