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He could see I was American, but I thought he was unlikely to harm me.

Sometimes one does wade into it or is ambushed as by a incensed fog.

It began last spring / Flowers blooming like crazy / No balm to our fear

It could be our baby. Her eyebrow, its perfect arc, the pale blue vein.

The only stories we tell ourselves are the ones we need to survive.

You can tell by the walls whoever lives here doesn’t want to be seen.

Doctor, he devoted. When she poorly, he bring her mint tea in bed.

I have so many questions for you, for you are closer to me than anyone.

You’ll learn to love the spoil, the apple’s softest flesh, the bruise.

Then I graduate to a four-digit mortgage inside an ornate gate.

money gotten by blood tends to stay in the blood, which has no race.

I reviewed the rules for myself, among them: stay in the moment.

Lust for power and money undermined their morality and common sense.

Upon his supine monstrous shape there was a colossal inertia.

Ivan rolled his eyes, and looked at the sky like someone about to be martyred.

If it were fiction, calling the place Newtown would be too much.

Carte blanche is bodily as chalk on dark asphalt, so enliven these eyes.

It’s difficult to be blessed by Madam Pele. She gives wonderful trouble.

He didn’t fall in line with our well-established porn-shop hierarchy.

John-Michael kept his mouth open until saliva had pooled behind his teeth.

Rise the Euphrates, my first novel, grew out of a feverish dream.

Remember that innocence is risky, memory inconclusive.

1908. The puppet’s name is Sambo. Oh what a friendly boy he looks to be!

Outside the kids play stretcher. One of them was dying between my hands.

I was a stranger to most people, myself incriminated.

If it hasn’t killed you by now just wait. This doesn’t mean you can fly.

It was to keep us impartial and to protect us from threats and bribes.

The writer must let his mind celebrate its nuptials in darkness.