21

I want to fall in love with somebody that nobody else is in love with.

20

There Are Worse Songs You Could Have to Listen to Exclusively on Repeat Forever Than The Knack's "My Sharona"

--wicked guitar solo
--sweet beat
--not the greatest song ever, but certainly not the worst

19

Denver street--dim, damp, gray--RTD strike--no one out--a ghost town. Pretty girl in pink shirt black pants stands out against the emptiness.

18

tall girl, pretty smile drops her coin purse--a little explosion of copper--sad radio pop song overhead--"Am I gonna be lonely for the rest of my life?" It's sentimental and forgettable but I think, "Man, do I know what you mean"--
and I try to think of Buddhism and suffering and sorrow and desire but I'm no Buddhist, I'm a kid who misses having somebody to touch.

17

Girl with phone to her eat trips down stairs--stays on feet, up to a running speed, tries to make it look effortless, graceful--looks not around, looks ahead, look means "I mean to do that" and I think what a strange creature is human, why the pride, is it natural?, why no humility--tripping is an accident but we think it a fault and we pretend it never happened.

A human comedy.

16

"Disappointed love is the anvil upon which individual character is forged." -Tat Sang So

15

Mickey Moose, if you'll recall.

14

The girl down at the creek, she takes off her dress and she swims in her--

--and I duck out and go down to find the swimming pool. And that song is there, and that scene is there, something from before, Freya maybe or something Jim remembers, so warm, clear, that scene, a scene from a film except here on page--like a field in that movie you remember--

13

Y no se olvide del gato rosado.

12

Stephen Metody: Denver royalty.

11

The dog, the battle boar, Hildesvini--he is a massive white dog of some kind, up to her waist. She looks like a goddess with that dog, like a queen, unstoppable.

Jim finds the dog at some point, knows it straightaway--"Hildesvini." Finding the dog is a piece of finding everything else.

10

Yoshigaki Yoshino, and his girlfriend, Miho.