Violent Ends

by Shaun David Hutchinson

You have to be strong to live here. You have to be just a little immortal to survive.

Everyone knows me. I don’t know anyone.

Sometimes what a person doesn’t say gives away more than what they do,

Kindness is impossible to sustain.

I feel an unnamable pain in him—the kind that ricochets so quickly through one’s soul, it cannot be caught, only pursued with increasing desperation.

fact: Guys who call themselves ballers are twenty times more likely to give you chlamydia.”