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He’d been lost and tripping vividly on some speckled acid for days.

The most arcane sexual practices could arouse me from my torpor.

Since the accident she lost her hold on the world and never got it back.

The band was amateur at best. It didn’t matter. People loved them.

Whales are very big (I saw one on a beach once) but trash is way bigger.

Perhaps he was not almost sixteen years old, but thirty-five and sick.

The woman perused Irwin’s request form. “You can’t go there.”

A Midwestern man is never without his knife. Half of us carry guns.

The owl was a white that could not be compromised by any other color.

If you’re going to take a degree, take one from the best school you can.

I was created in His image I had dominion over every thing

Beached on the kingdom I learned to swim with my eyes closed.

When I cast my vote, I become just that tiny, abstract, lost, and essential.

Collage what we can, form fractured and repaired, blend of is and isn’t.

When I wasn’t teaching social studies, I basically lived on my balcony.

He grabbed me, groped for my hips, kissing me, smelling my hair.

The wind was like a girl sobbing out her story of betrayal to the stars.

You remind me of lizards birthed in an outhouse by an ogre or a loon.

“It means,” Stoner said again, and could not finish what he had begun.

Long and black, almost thick, the night comes to drape my shoulders.

“Mind you come straight home,” Mrs. Heywood always says.

Truth, it seems, spills from movies and sitcoms in the wires’ wake.

This is a place where young girls are butchered in old-time songs.

Turned out Bauer was one of the ones brought alive by misery.

Up there there’s not a sound except for the wind and the buzzing of bees.

She had seen him take the crop to a girl for doing nothing at all.

Cassandra blared Puccini and Eminem so she would not pray.

For the first two months of class, Toby did barely any writing at all.

A man jostles my stride to the street, no shoulder on which to move.

No, you may not walk there. No, you may not stand on that. He is not here.