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Who could have imagined a beast as strange and melancholy as a giraffe?
We constantly became people we would later regret having been.
He was forever leaning, slanting, sidling, his existence italicized down to his crooked hat.
Don’t valorize her: She only wanted to create enough distance to enjoy the luxuries of the ruling class without feeling morally complicit in its actions.
I said nothing, and as is often the case with men who possess more power than wisdom, he took my silence for affirmation.
The granules wedge into my molar divots, rough and folically acidic, suggesting the kind of rich, fibrous nutrients that uncoil one’s intestines into a vertical chute.
Hipsterdom’s a tightrope strung across the canyon of douche-baggery. He clung by a finger.
They wore overcoats in midsummer, distrustful of every source of authority, even the calendar.
Turning I would to I did is the grammar of growing up.
He made fingerholds of the valleys of her vertebrae.
For the rest of my adolescence, the visions promised by DANCE PARTY PLACE! and other dance party places formed the bank into which I deposited the loose change of dreams.
As if I could just die for the length of a track, slipping into sweet oblivion as my heart took a rest and the bass circulated my blood. I surrendered to the Dictatorship of Dance, the Supreme Soviet of Sound.
The parts she mentally amputated were the ones he most adored.
They passed back and forth a single breath that grew heavier with each exhalation.
As a general rule, people in suits are more likely to take advantage of you than people in pajamas, but Chechnya requires you to reevaluate deeply held assumptions.
There was a pause, five seconds when I felt him looking at me as Kolya had in those rare moments when we’d worn through our deceptions.
The ridge falls only to rise again, up and down, a bad joke Mother Nature insists on retelling over and over.
