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Women & Menexpand_moreHe was reading Our Town. She studied the departure board.
The hut was cluttered with the skulls and bones of small animals.
Later in the pale of dawn your hair brushed across my forearm.
I understood that life could end without warning, even young lives.
Not long after Christmas, the smoke really hit Melbourne.
Joshua was well versed in things to which I was not yet privy, like sex.
He’s gonna change the way we farm around here. Make it more like India.
The one who sold me a smuggled gun sold me smuggled bullets.
Is there some one way a guy should be on his wedding day, dickwad?
The rifle slams into my shoulder. Smoke pummels the air.
“Out to lunch,” she learns from an older colleague, is a euphemism.
Eight years, and she was ready to call it quits. They were both ready.
When we wake up, the five windows and the French door are full of light.
I’m trying to decide if I’m too cold to be curious, when the box meows.
He thought of the love that had filled the great central chamber of his life.
Another girl like an origami crane, given to a reckless boy who unfolds it.
The beer and the kissing and the lateness of the hour had got to me.
Now he was all out of dreams, out of rage, expectations, and money too.
Doisneau might have eyed and shot us for how brazenly we kissed.
You can tell by the walls whoever lives here doesn’t want to be seen.
Translucent white prayer strings of her bonnet trailing in the air.
This kind of childhood stuck with a person, twisted things up.
The beasts and fowl and all manner of slithery thing can love like us.
Que voulez-vous? I said. Patisserie, she said and smiled. Pastry, I said. Well, that’s predictable.
We were lying on the grass, sharing a joint. The sun was radiant.
It will be years before the kids see us as real people, not just as parents.
Florence’s cobbled streets spoke like a broken wheel, a halfhearted inferno.
She was wanting to be noticed as a person not wanting to be noticed.
His name is Lloyd. He lives on Percival. He’s super creepy.
He was so frail, how could your heart not break when you saw him?
