Alvah Allen

You were there behind the pastry counter the owner was saying something in Farsi

Let’s light this whole place on fire or not. I’m fine either way either way the wind blows you never know. Let’s light this whole place on fire and let them try and…

Everybody has a dreamgirl, even people who don’t like girls All that much. Everybody’s got one. They vary widely.

for Amy Researchers say there are 1000 jokes being told every single second. At least 13 of them are being told

All they ever wanted was to get high, listen to Journey, and fix up that Mustang with an Edelbrock manifold which, thinking back on it is completely understandable. --May 2017

for Ward and Brian Me and Ward, we didn’t have shit. We took our best guitars, we took our best song, we took the best singing

for Philip Sturges Why steal your poems back from the world? Ok, true, the world sucks and it doesn’t deserve them

I only know one world and you’re the only one in the world I know. I can brush the hair back from the eyes of your shadow with my eyes closed. I only…

It looks like we’re about to get some desperately needed rain. Not the normal kind but, the desperately

(1959-2017) I don’t know how to tell your story, so I won’t. I do know the world wanted

Boy meets girl boy invites girl into truck he’s got a great idea why don’t they get some beer and ride down, preferably, a dirt road, but any back road will certainly do,…

I know, you just stepped on my foot and that’s fine. I’m still a beginner myself.

The evening started with such promise. The disco ball spun and every light that streaked across the floor seemed to say:

It’s hard to wake up every day and immediately feel like there’s a mystery you have to unravel. Have questions, will travel. You might as well sleep in your trench coat like Columbo.…

Language without tone is like a really good pitch, sometimes, you get it but, most times, you don’t. It’s almost always a hit or miss proposition, especially

I wish I knew what it was carrying me away. It feels like carpet, but not like magic carpet. Berber or maybe green and yellow shag.