25 April, 2008

A list

A List of Things That Cannot Be Described in Words

1. The taste of peanut butter.

2. The feeling of laying awake in bed on a weekday morning.

3. The sound of the D string on an acoustic guitar.

4. Wind that blows the front of your flannel shirt open and cools your hair.

5. The interior of pancakes.

6. The first instant of sexual intercourse.

7. Snow on the soles of bare feet.

8. Pine resin between your thumb and index finger.

9. The smell of bacon in a hallway.

10. The smell of old paperback books.

11. Soup in the moustache.

12. Headache.

13. The cold side of the pillow

14. The moment of inevitability between the trip and the fall.

15. Vomiting.

16. Just the lips (and the tip of the nose) in an icy creek.

17. Owing money all around.

18. The smell of grass.

19. Rock and Roll.

20. A pink sunset through grey windows on a yellow day.

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