Tag Archives: Angel Uriel Perales

Tartarus

I lack many things. I am blind. My skin is uglier than Egil’s bones. My bones horrify the good James Paget. I’m led away from stadiums through vomitoriums. I forswear my faith and from faith, virtue, and placed in my … Continue reading

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The Rose and the Red

Overtures are made. Music happens. Blame Canadian Mist and Mountain Dew. Blame the mix not the brew. I sat there stretched out in cummerbund, the circular table overflowed, sweet buns, wedding cake, something thrown, bridesmaids dancing in high heels and … Continue reading

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Skin Tag (an Exaggeration)

The sun filled my ears if not my eyes and I remember squinting in paradise feeling the cloying warmth. This was on the Venice Beach boardwalk, on a crisp November morn, amber and comatose; in fact so wearisome, during a … Continue reading

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Our House

Only the blood in my bones keeps me warm. Wake up to this chilling breath, shrouds out of my mouth, a dirge dog fog. My down comforter filled with sunken hopes, anchored by tears that swelled there. The marriage bed, … Continue reading

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My Embellished Life. Game #2- Find the Embellishment

So let me regale you with the unimportant minutiae that compromise my life, because nothing screams self-obsessed more than inane insignificant observations that make me feel like I am not really so insipid to think that my life rises above … Continue reading

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My Embellished Life. Game #1- The Internet License Plates and The Taco Bell Affair.

So let me regale you with the unimportant minutiae that compromise my life, because nothing screams self-obsessed more than inane insignificant observations that make me feel like I am not really so insipid to think that my life rises above … Continue reading

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The Enigma of the 16th Floor Elevators

Okay. So I travel to downtown Los Angeles to attend a meeting with a “name” well-connected film industry producer. DOWNTOWN I can’t find parking under 20 dollars for the day or 8 dollars an hour. Since I don’t know how … Continue reading

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Watching the Eccentrics

Red weather tigers skulk drunk sailors in dreams of the suspended men, the hopes of the men in red suspenders. The thin women in their awkward heels never received the awaited postcard from Vesuvious, their knockoff Hermes scarves in a … Continue reading

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