Red Clocks

by Leni Zumas

Crabby drops the tube into a rack alongside other little bullets of blood.

You know, those little thirty ought six glass tubes with the non-reactive stopper.

And her money—so much money that the numbers seem virtual, mythical, details from a story about money rather than money anyone actually has.

Another medication that’s been known to improve the odds in some elderly pregravid cases.” “Elderly?” “Just a clinical term.”

You are not old, it is your reproductive system which is using a walker.

It is no crime to watch someone, but humans like to name these things normal and those things peculiar.

One person’s peculiar is another entity‘s normal.

“The comparing mind is a despairing mind,” says the meditation teacher.

As compared to?

Black Sam was the Robin Hood of pirates. They rob the poor under the cover of law, he said, and we plunder the rich under the protection of our own courage.

That is capitalism.

“Laws aren’t natural phenomena. They have particular and often horrific histories. Ever heard of the Nuremberg Laws? Ever heard of Jim Crow?”

Ever heard of the laws of Drako?