... with cartons of cream, jugs of milk. Mick buys a quart of 2 percent because you don t need to go for skim if you have enough cocaine in your diet. You don t need to buy shampoo, either, when rich girls with blond bangs and eyes that flicker sex always leave theirs behind. They want Mick to remember them...

... if it breaks open? at the checkout counter, a man was buying three bags of cattle feed. he talked to his wife on the phone in spanish asked her, should i buy another? should i buy a fifth? and the chick pressed its head into my thumb, cocooned in quiet. i was its mother, for a moment, until i put it under...

.... It was a round of printers' strikes originally in England that started the price hikes, but then that got caught up with libraries no longer buying everything here. People cite a time when libraries would buy anything a university press published. I don't know if such a golden age ever existed...

... against it. People love to talk about streets, but asphalt’s always a cemetery of skinned tires, so I’m looking to the markets —​ Condom World! —​where I buy gloves and a Snickers and save enough money to buy a fried steak with an egg cracked over it and enough rice...

.... Is that Sambuca? Oh, we really shouldn’t, we really, really, really-really, really, really shouldn’t. We can’t. We can’t. Oh, OK. Hooooooo. We never realized you could fry gnocchi in duck fat. Can you buy foie gras at the store? Why does herbed butter do nothing but make us happy...

..., you liar but Kaju can t bring himself to be the son she has taught him to be. Kaju buys half a pound of black cod. He sees the monger rinsing it in the back and packing it extra tight. The glaring NO RETURNS sign mocks him while he counts the dollars. At the meat booth, the fish looks lonely...

... watching Basic Instinct on DVD, she straddled him on the bed, and reaching under his pillow, self-conscious but determined, drew out a white silk scarf. “Did you buy an ice pick as well?” he asked. Ting pouted, and pushed the hair back from her face. She expected these experiments to be taken...

..., get the Village Voice to say, “If you want to know what you need to know, buy this book.” Another thing, in publishing terms, was that they broke down publishing practices and introduced publishing genres that didn’t exist before in the scholarly publishing world...

... always absent from the pile always missing so late so as Lonnie so pissed he buys a copy and then the magazine show up all feisty and ragged assed like guess who? you guess right there that job ass fucker Pernell Cole ...

... and her protests are sweet and sticky like grape soda, so I let her have it her way. We waste the afternoon on corn syrup and fizz and I buy her a package of peppermints. minnesota review 87 (2016) DOI 10.1215/00265667-3630808  © 2016 Elizabeth O’Brien 54 ...

... raise my riffling skirt. “They’re white,” I yell triumphantly. “I lose,” his profile grins. “I’ll buy ice cream.” At a picnic table beside Chautauqua Lake, I try to engage him with stories about my school, but his veiled eyes look...

... to buy Cottons. Cars are everywhere. America has more cars than people. In Germany ghost cars drive fast through city streets at three o clock in the morning. Police chase them but they disappear into air. e rst car was the Benz Motorwagen. It traveled at 9 mph. A gira e can run faster than...

... comes. If I am not back on the job by Monday, I don’t have a job. I am not locked out. There is work. Collectors are calling. It will be winter soon. Yard mowing jobs dry up. School is starting. I can’t buy pee-wee football uniforms. For the first time, I’m thinking...

... it s wild to assume butterflies will meet me at home at the market, a woman s eyes are gleaming this means her lover is heartbreak and she receives bruises as hickeys. Today I haggled grapefruit till its juices dried up in the sun This is where my fantasy is supposed to appear & buy me a basket...

..., prickling like flowers. My bones don t know emergency. They know slow, chronic prescription bottle treasure map. They know lingering deep like the roots of a flower. I undress in the light before you. Flat chest and slight belly. So you ll forgive my ineptitudes, I buy you rings and flowers. Do the bumps...

... the money, we would buy it from ourselves. The mermaid on the ripped cushion seductively curling her heavy tail, whose wink was never for us, we eagerly throw in for free. © 2012 by Virginia Tech 2012 ...

... that gave me possibilities, but fidelity was warm, meanwhile full of holes. I once believed in settling, which was only guaranteed with buy high, sell higher. Who could? Outside, the shadows of trees dwarfed all uniqueness —​ the house’s, its cement’s. And the muscles’. Toes...

... problems, she says, Here between two tough city housing projects. These children need to focus on testing, she says. Testing is what will give them future success. One girl answers, "A statue is something people build or buy." She recalls a vague reference in a textbook. A boy answers...

.... There are so many audiences who can benefit from Book Search—it’s good news for people who read books because they can more easily discover books that are of interest to them, and where to buy them; it’s good news for authors because it makes it easier for more people to discover...

... to buy us beer, as we make sexy eyes through the tinted windows of your parents’ BMW so no one suspects we’ve never driven on the freeway. That’s why this poem wears plastic angel’s wings, a pleather skirt and a body that glimmers like milk, glitters like dewdrops on peaches...