Why hold onto your books so tenderly, he asked. Why collect them in such great quantities with no intention to read them?
and I must take this road from every example even if these examples are the document of my life and every one I loved.
The Jeff-Goldblum-crossed-with-a-fly-divided-by-cat-dog-and-just-released-from-the-telepod-writhing-in-agony-in-a-pink-stinking-mess-on-the-floor kind of trans person?
The shadow plane
points perilously
in the direction of
human love.
Reason 2. Your brother is already married.
If I am going to get into your family, it’s
going to have to be through you.
I used to chug margaritas at nightclubs and whisper to blonde women. I was a large man and the mirror caused pain. I was married at the time, which makes these memories doubly shameful.
When I am sitting up in bed, which I often do, I think in terms of submersion, as if I fell through the floor.
The shovel’s sharpened tip will
Slash the dry air.
the pictures, of you, begin to resemble, you, less, the more, you scroll down.
She did not know her future husband owned a gun, but he briefly served and so it makes a sudden kind of sense.
I did not want to let
them in. I took some
steak from my fridge
and threw it outside.
An error in the game was the realest feature. It formed a foundation. The developers thought how American. How reckless.
This sister of yours: She low? She even? She laps? Appears ill but quick? She too mirror a symbol to comprehend?
The value of lived experience, an epistemological commodity I was assumed to have in quantity.
Animatronic eagle, which for some reason hooted, did its hooting in the listening dark.