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by Brian Weilert

I was running late


First day


New job


Bustling through bodies


Leaning forward for leverage


Contorting


            as I pushed


Squeezed


Bounced


            toward work


A failed phone alarm…


That stupid phone


Shattered-screen-Dysfunctional battery-Unreliable coverage-Too damn expensive to replace


Phone


I started mentally


exercising excuses


Generating fabrications


As I multi-tasked


Grappling


People


And


Myself


Wrestling with a moral dilemma


If telling a fib would be okay


Just once


I looked about my surroundings


A city filled with


Faux purposeful action


Hundreds of thousands of people


like


Maggots on a carcass


Wriggling with excited movement


Going nowhere


 There was a fire in my building


            But they could check


Death in the family


            But they could check


They were shooting a movie on the street


            But they could check


 I hated Google


            Destroyer of imaginative lies


 My phone alarm didn’t go off


            You’re fired


 I pulled my purse under my arm


Protecting the football


During a goal line push


 


Sweating beneath my blouse


Sticky


 I paused at the crosswalk


Deciding if risking death


            ignoring the red hand


To get to work


            was actually a legitimate debate


I glanced down


            saw a run in my hose


Even before sending out invitations


My pity party began


             My life is a shamble


            I have gained ten pounds


                        while unemployed


            I don’t even want this job


            I am just broke


                        down to my last thousand in the bank


            I can’t call my parents


                        again


            How did I end up so miserable


            I wanted to curl up


                        cry


Movement


And confirmation from


The iconic illuminated static walker


Triggered my mindless Pavlovian first step


Only to be halted


Awakened


            with the sound


            the pain


Of shin on steel


Jarred to reality


Angry


I looked down


A woman in a wheel chair


Facing the wrong damn way


In a rush hour crossing


 So out of place


            A slug at a saltlick


            A bagwoman at the ballet


            A clown quaffing cognac at the Copacabana


 Scanning up


I peered into a twisted


            twitching face


Disheveled red hair


Eyes unfocused


A droplet of drool


            escaping her mouth


 Right arm in the air


            Moving hiccupped


                        counter clockwise


Left hand


            a strained


                        spastic fist


                        by her side


A  “Me Like Cookies”


            Muppet endorsed t-shirt


Red patterned stretch pants


Made from cloth


            Like that from my Grandmother’s sofa


She was maybe twenty


Seated in a cheap collapsible wheelchair


            impeding me from…


                        what…


                              failure…


                                    unhappiness…


Around her neck was a sign


I BET YOU CAN’T HIT ME WITH A DOLLAR




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