/lit/ - Literature

>read non-fiction
>slog my way through 200 pages for month and half
>read fiction
>finish 200 pages in 3 days

>>13860683

>>13727961

in the living room
the orange heads of the jack-o-lanterns
show their dark teeth
in fiery smiles
and carefully watch the clumps
of costumes begin to spread
through the room
like cheap red wine,
trickling from an overturned bottle

and art man
with drooping sad mustache
and flowing terry cloth cape
shadows through the crowd
vainly searching,
searching for mae west

mae west
in red-hot glitter dress
waving sparkling, ruby fingernails
dances frantically with each new man
to escape his weakening power

in the kitchen
the laughing roller derby queen
elbows her way to her husband, tyrone
his homburg pulled low
over leery bushy eyebrows
his cane typing out obscene propositions
and once together
dance cheek to mutton chopped jaw
while the toucan
in his cage
vaguely thinks of green grapes
and steamy, bolivian jungles

finally, the jack-o-lantern eyes
grow dark and heavy
the gun fighters and the dance hall girls
the fringed flappers and the togaed libertines
fall below the neck of the wine bottle
and disappear
art man and mae west
and the last man she danced with
are the last to leave,
their sad, exhausted faces
caught for a second in the gray glare
of their own lighted porch

back inside the silent house
a patient couple
come together suddenly,
kissing and roughly touching,
desperate,
as the toucan,
dying from the low humidity
and the inability to eat
smooths his dry, ruffled feathers
for sleep

>>13316992
>sperg out about CO2
global heating is real, CIA nigger

Thoughts? It's interesting in places but ultimately his take is pretty boomer-tier. It also seems to contradict the drift of most of his novels
https://harpers.org/archive/2019/01/donald-trump-is-a-good-president/

>>12217717
>licking fingers ever

>>12062917
>bent corner

>>11467574
Delete this

im 28 and never had anything but one night stands with grils. How the fuck does one form a relationship.

one day mods will delete and give perma bans for threads like these
one day i hope

>>10255021
>>10255121
delete this right now