Now You Try
Your roommate has something to tell you about the sociology of chip brands. Driving has something to tell you about shivering. Your porch has something to tell you about your ex-girlfriend. Evolution has something to tell you about acne. Bea Arthur has something to tell you about drugs. Beaches have something to tell you about community. Your mom has something to tell you, sometimes. The post office has something to tell you about the rest of your life. Coffee has something to tell you but can't remember. Sleep has something to tell you about accommodation. Snacks have something to tell you about waiting. Field goals in the red zone have something to tell you about what you should think of "satisfaction." The internet has the sum of things to tell you. Sunglasses have something to tell you about sex. Corn fritters have something to tell you about ambition. Fog has something to tell you about your heart, but only at certain hours. Breathing has something to tell you about children. You have something to tell me you won't. The chef has something to tell you about liaisons. Strangers have something to tell you about your mood. Love has the only thing to tell you about love. Make your lover tell you something about something you do in your sleep. Boredom has something to tell you about accumulation. Whenever God has something to tell you about a particular area, an exclamation point will show up in the lower-left corner of your screen. Mary J. Blige has something to tell you about fighting AIDS, but this is just something I heard. First science has something to tell you about petting. Then science had something to tell you about petting. Petting has nothing to tell you about science. Petting does have something to tell you about guessing. Malls have something to tell you about Christmas. VCR technology has something to tell you about Republicans. A good thing is something that has something to tell you about something. If you are lying in bed and there is a maple bonbon on your nightstand a little out of reach, how much and what kind of effort you employ through your body toward that bonbon has something to tell you about death. 4AM has something to tell you, but it's outside. The press has something to tell you they saw, but they always wait until it's gone. Watermelons have something smart to tell you. Breakfast has something to tell you about your friends. Dreams have something to tell you about where to swim. Movie trailers have something to tell you about what you want. M&Ms have something to tell you about your next thought. Dancing has something to tell you about worry. Cussing has something to tell you about instructions. Fights between hockey goalies have something men don't tell you. If you have something to tell me, come here. Money has something to tell you about not sleeping. What I told you was something I meant to mean something about something I had to tell you about. Knowing has something to tell you about politics. Rain has something to tell you about blame. Fruit flies have something to tell you about residency. Tollbooths have something to tell you about cameras. Tell-all's sell something to have. We always have something to tell the dictionary. Please listen I have something to tell you. Please tell me I have something. Toothbrushes have something to tell you about your sense of humor. Having tells something to use you. Your head has something to tell you about scarecrows. There's someone here for you. Do you want me to tell them to go home?
Ekleksographia:
Wave Three
May, 2010
Fiction
Mike Young
Mike Young is the author of We Are All Good If They Try Hard Enough (Publishing Genius Press 2010), a forthcoming poetry collection, and Look! Look! Feathers (Word Riot Press 2010), a forthcoming story collection. He co-edits NOÖ Journal and Magic Helicopter Press. Find him online at MikeAYoung.blogspot.com, offline in Northampton, Massachusetts.