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His flannel sleeve dangled into the flame. Pretty soon, I was on fire too.

When he bent close to her, his balaclava glowed silvery in the dying sunlight.

We had run out of every necessity. You name it, we didn’t have it.

Soon everything here will be sopped up by time. Only art will last.

Let’s rummage through each other’s bodies like a blowout sale.

Imagine octopus, and keep the talk going through the chew.

The keys look like Tommy’s teeth once he began to appreciate meth.

…a classmate dropped dead, his heart was attacked at thirty-three.

What consequence is a body/a body nonetheless. If the light in me is gone.

There’s no need to check for a pulse, hold a hand mirror for breath.

That year, the mail would arrive as white as warning, as flashing teeth.

The sloshed grownups had little to say to me. I loved it that I was alien.

I wish I could tell him he’s not going to hell. It would be so freeing for him.

A clumsy coyote descends an old hill of garbage. Death is visiting.

Brain an inkblot liquor stain until the heroine blinks the coma away.

The night before my mother’s double mastectomy, we went skinny-dipping.

Walking on Canal Street, I slipped on the curb and fell on my face.

He loathed them most, despising their desire to get on with things.

Oh, won’t you lie here darling whistlepigs, here, curled at my side?

Picture the thing you want most. True love? A new car? Let it go.

The story of Wing Biddlebaum’s hands is worth a book in itself.

She has a small solid mess of troubles she longs to upchuck.

I peel back the hours and search for the light before it scatters.

In the thickening smoke the workers clawed and flailed at one another.

The world is a riddle of shape and texture, from sight to smell to sound.

The Morgan nosed her for another carrot. She petted his neck. She had loved to canter.

When nobody knows where you are, you get to talk however you want.

Jack picked me up in a car with a greasy-potato sex smell.

A spider drifted down so slowly from the ceiling on a silver thread.

What is greater: the distance between these bodies, or their need?