I toss my half-stale ripple chips aside and slap on a sweat suit and sneaks and for the first time in months go out jogging down empty streets grinning with a yearlong binge of booze and smokes working itself out of my system until I feel wide awake, clean, clear, and content just flying down the streets feeling totally overdosed on goodlife and fuck-yeahs that seem to go on forever.
He is smiling, but the grin is empty and hollow-eyed – for his face is a bare skull.
Barack Obama, microphone in hand, stares off into the distance of a nearly empty room, a bemused grin on his face that seems to say, "Where is everybody?" Suddenly, a woman beelinesto the president, climbs to join him on his platform — there's no security around to stop her — and leans in for a kiss.
"It's wonderfully empty," he said with a grin.
Back in 1982, artists Timur Novikov and Ivan Sotnikov had themselves photographed grinning through an empty rectangular space at the first official show of the semi-underground group TEII.
"I just had some Nicorette," Mr. Obama said with a grin, pulling a nearly empty package from his pocket.
Most storefronts are empty now, mocking like a toothless grin the spiffy red banners on the light posts that plead, TAKE PRIDE IN ALIQUIPPA.
The horse looks out on the square with empty eye sockets and a skeletal grin, while the money goes round and round and the people talk.
Blake grinned and threw his empty hands over his head.
I knew a simple soldier boy Who grinned at life in empty joy, Slept soundly through the lonesome dark, And whistled early with the lark.
