Strange Weather

by Joe Hill

a lot of our best thinking takes place well below the level of conscious cogitation and has nothing to do with rationality.

I believe that our subconscious often finishes ideas hours, days, weeks, even years before it decides to present them to the higher reaches of the brain.

But I could not lie my way out of it with myself.

true of being black in America. A person would make up his mind about you as soon as you said hello, just from the way you said it.

She was always clothed in the sheer velvet gown of her emotions,

Eyes very large, face calm, attentive. Listening while the world sang to her.

It was like losing an arm-wrestling match, only with his sphincter.

You knew what was real not by its qualities but by its imperfections.

CLOSED FOR THE END OF THE HUMAN RACE.

‘Democracy was canceled on account of rain. The human season will be suspended until further notice.’”

“Keep talking, buddy,” I said. “And you won’t have to worry about celestial retribution. You’ll get some right here on earth.”