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I feel delicious tody! I can claim the whole lawn with just one flamingo.

On the swings in the park, a woman sounds an off-key minor chord.

I’m touched by kindness, I declare. That anyone wants me is a miracle.

You have to be three times better than the white kids, at everything.

If he was cheating on her, he was cheating on her paintings as well.

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.

there was a boy made of bad teeth & a boy made of stale bread

Sex is the closest we can come to touching where touch resides.

The thumbnail spoke directly to the most excitable parts of himself.

Eyes wide open, I offer myself to a new boy and watch him grow.

Never takes much, a fingertip’s touch, or beak-brush of prey-probing bird.

“Hey, babe,” he said, breathing into the phone like a sex maniac.

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

I remember a child’s fingers on his wrist as they traced the blue.

Real ones get through again and again.

Out by the road was her son standing without a stitch of clothing.

It is this—what you hear when you stop listening—that counts.

She was the idiot who fell in love with some high-class gigolo.

Gravity bends together this planet and your life, made of glass.

He felt desperate for the rains, mosquitoes be damned.

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

The grass is always greener in the cemetery, was a joke I made to Jed.

My shadow feels my company, my stepping as he steps.

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

The thing was, I didn’t care what I ate in front of a woman. Every day, I told her things I would have been too embarrassed to tell anyone else.

I dream of watching my grandfather stagger home through the snow.

Your hands along her spine. Her hips unfolding like a cotton napkin.

Teddy, the new sous chef, is on fire again. It’s the second time in a week. I make a silent promise to myself never to have sex on a beach, not even with Ryan Gosling.

Fresh from Texas. She has the head of a girl & a serpent’s body.

Society was imposing, like something out of an English drama.