The Hole Between Mine and Yours: Liquid Logic from a Dirty Tumbler

By Christina M. Grey

Whether delving into the causes and cures for attraction and repulsion, considering crime and insanity, or wrestling her way out of bed, this selection of work delivers with consistently high levels of emotional intensity and intelligence.

The Hole Between Mine and Yours: Liquid Logic from a Dirty Tumbler includes "act of imperfect contrition," "A Lover's Knot is Love or Not," "Vanity is the Remedy for Loneliness," "dirty snow white," "empire waste of mind," and 50 more revelatory pieces to challenge, amuse, and enchant.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christina M. Grey
• Release date: Aug 14, 2011
• ISBN: 9781465746504

Christina M. Grey

Christina Grey enjoys drinking carrot juice and dancing by herself. She dreams of building the perfect swing set for adults. She is working on her second novel, since first novels are notoriously wretched. If you follow her on twitter, you may be randomly selected for effusive thanks in her next acceptance speech.

Book preview

Wet

Floyd and I flied

I mean flew

But you seemed to knew

I mean know

Through the sky that I ride

I mean wrote

On the waves of the nights

I mean notes

Surfing words as we float

I mean flowed

While the sound filled the bored

I mean boat

We were drifting up art

I mean close

To the clues of the noose

I mean knows

As we melted blue moons

I mean moans

Into wise from the wounds

I mean woes

We renewed with the tune

I mean truth

Ruined times of the new

I mean youth

But he left me alone

with no line

how to reach him or send

him a sign

when I need him but can’t

seem to find

where he hides out of sight

and my mind

Now I dream of the lane

I mean loon

And the day he will soon

I mean save

From the guillotine scene

I mean sane

And the life of the plight

I mean plain

Please return to me, Floyd

what has fled

Turn my spaces from white

into wet

and remind me of who

I mean how

I can swim even when

I’m without

-o-

ode to no one

I

as i escape, they're gaining speed

i feel like prey as they stampede

they're drooling, hungry for a feed

they're on my tail and wanting meat

a bunny running, chaste, around

surrounded by and scared of clowns

this circus city tourist hoax

a park without the rides, a joke

(the punch line is we're all alone)

this carnival, this homesick home

these sideshow freaks and average joes

or savage beasts and boring foes

i've yet to meet a worthy beau

or if i have, he had to go

II

so listen, mister, i confide

my secret: i'm unsatisfied

i long for something deep inside

come fill me up with what's implied

i've fled away from free to find

a beeline toward the wrong way sign

on subterranean famous train

i'm in the railroad's other lane

i want to be the bird you cage

just clip my wings and close my range

enslave and save me, pin me down

and lock me up. please keep me bound

and tied to where you hold the key

i promise i won't try to flee

if you will stay and be my safe

i'll have a ball wrapped up and chained

so find your fire, light my flame

come ring my bell and say my name

III

release me from this hell i'm in

without a cellmate, celibate

employ me as your nighttime toy

your lifetime servant, paid in joy

i want to be your biggest fan

your favorite thought, your genie lamp

your fantasies are my commands

your hopes and dreams: my maps and plans

imagine, wish, and then say when

you'll let me in and under skin

and i'll begin the endless grins

remove a trace of former cringe

just tell me how you like to feel

i'll make you love it, doubt it's real

when you say jump, i won't reply

i'll just surprise you with how high

i'll master all that you request

i'll learn it backwards, ace the test

right when you know that i'm the best

i'll blow your mind way past