Status Updates From The Things We've Seen

‘The placenta—is the distorted mirror of our world. Everything, the vegetables & the minerals, even the objects around us, & the water, the air, it’s all been birthed at some point, & so has its corresponding placenta, worlds that overlap only rarely. A shudder ran through me. It was starting to grow light—LA seemed to me a city of wild vegetation—if it weren’t for the constant road-building & construction projects—’

‘—mescal w/ segments of orange—it was—that—moment, indissolubly linked w/ the—book, that my life as a drinker began—It was then that I entered the state of perpetual drunkenness I would only occasionally abandon thereafter—The Labyrinth of Solitude—had a point—we do have this insane faith in our own survival—And okay, I know I’m not getting out of here alive either. Which is why there’s one last story I want to tell’