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Life Choicesexpand_moreHe glowered even as a little child. Maybe because he has your bad eyes.
He was trying to seduce me with his history, which was mine as well.
Her bra is black, her breasts full and white. There is too much flesh.
For a month after 9/11 Bella wept through all her appointments.
Like New York City, the factory was circumscribed but infinite.
Take this man, Stepan. His deep mellow voice soars in my heart.
We see how tired you are as you lean on your rifle or your shovel.
The people flocked to witness the execution of Ja’afar and his kinsmen.
Young people have a gift for reviving freshness of language.
A charmed sequence of words. The jangle. The strum.
If you let me live, I will buy you beer whenever I see you in town.
At a red light he touches his cheek. The stubbly skin is sensitive, febrile.
Surely a million mothers and school teachers can’t be entirely wrong.
No parent has yet been born who can save a child from childhood.
We were young and lived wild lives in the delightful city of our sojourn.
Her sentiments maudlin, malaise dripped like a fever from her pores.
I try to imagine him wanting only a Toblerone bar for his birthday.
These adventures taught me that writers are flawed human beings.
Those under us are not dead. They are dancers. We are the music.
He pushed aside a photograph of a man with a knife stuck in his eye.
He cut down on beer and moved into the hotel that had my name.
When I think on it, I can’t believe I’m going to kill two people over weed.
She wonders if he will be all right. She assumes he has four-wheel drive.
He didn’t mind, he insisted, that he loved her more than she loved him.
Somebody would be a lot happier if she were more like her mother.
Say what you will, a human being has the right to their own body.
My mother and I remained apart. My father came late to the party.
I was dusty, my ponytail all askew and the tips of my fingers ran red.
She asked, “What’s the weirdest thing you can do with your body?”
She began to see the word, or traces of it, wherever she went.
