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When the light failed she listed all the places he might find her.

All I could focus on was if he was going to ask me to date him.

Men came over carrying lanterns and pulled away the chunks of ice.

The sense all along has been that there’s some madness in her.

I don’t know you, I only think of you to ignore how unhappy I am.

We could use our arms to squeeze or hold or load not a gun, not a gun.

She takes her hand to my scalp: eyes close as if tasting lemon cake.

Turns out my body’s a dollar sweet potato, her screen said.

We could have everything and still be hurt.

With cane in hand I felt a twinge of superiority to the crutch people.

The kissed fingerpad touched wet with wine orbiting.

He’d always wanted to kiss her thigh dimples but never dared.

Cerberuses ran in packs, terrorizing drunks who fell in the snow.

The door opened, and Dan stormed in, shouting, “Motherfuckers!”

All my life I wondered what it is to vanish like a ring of smoke.

If only to hold on by opening lord give me this one eighth day

Rain falls steadily, rattling down drainpipes and gurgling into gutters.

I wonder if those tiny computers in pigeons’ brains ever crash?

Ella knew she hadn’t hurt Sebastian, but she knew she’d betrayed him.

I miss sex. I really liked it, and I was good at it, if I do say so myself.

Mama would say beware of the little flaws that make one homely.

The guy from the funeral home can’t get the gurney into the house.

I will make my own man I will stitch together a coat of drunk minks

We pull up alongside the great body. The fin marks the spot.

We’re fat! So what? They hadn’t yet tired of this chant, the play’s refrain.

Bright rot laces the air, light sharpens each leaf. On our way to fallow, fire.

The hands opened calmly like seeds, endured the passage of time.

You need to teach these cows to meditate. To lose their bodies.

I am part dumb, and blind, and deaf, and untasting and unfeeling.

Her city, but no cats. Specks of color, no cloth.