Soon after I received my first eye injection a decade ago, the movie list began. “It reminds me of that scene in... more
Amoral Impurity
Picking at ingrown
pubes on the porch swing
in the sun on the first
summery day... more
I vomit discretion, magic tricks, a glass ashtray. I take a break
from vomiting & light a bottle rocket.
I can’t see the future, though sometimes I see someone on the street and think it’s someone I know, but it’s not; a few minutes later, I see the person I’d thought the other person was.
“Recorded learned and mixed in two days” sounds like exactly the sorta shenanigans we were all about.
I crave the lack of my thousand siblings...
For a moment, regardless of our lives, everything the light touches is warm and friendly, and we are all indeed in the same circle: Access Member Humans who love Access Member Dogs and can put up with their people for three hours because we also love baseball.
I am lonely and just learning how to say I'm lonely...
This Essay Isn't About the NBA Finals Because... more
Picture a village in south Punjab. Flat, irrigated land, low distant hills, rice and wheat fields.
Of course, Jesus only had hyssop—a bitter wine on a wet sponge—during the passion, but that was not an option at the concession stand.
"My Favorite Hat," "Blue Hawaii Hat," and "Rust is a Color, the Tech Sergeant Told Me"
Read Kevin Mahler's Introduction to his ongoing 5-part "Portrait Series Paralleling Characters in HBO’s... more
I don’t remember when portable CD players came out, but I know the one my aunt got me for Christmas was the first to arrive... more
That first year of having her, I would drive by myself, just to feel that relief of no anxiety. I... more
"Review of the Eiffel Tower," "Something to Worry About," and "Misery Is a Little Gray Ceramic Pig"
When so much energy is spent on surveying the territory, adapting to the wonders and confusions of a new place, there isn’t always room to develop as a person.
I read the article and passed her the phone.
On the drive home, I waited in the dark of the third-row seat for Z to act, reach for my hand or kiss my cheek. But he wouldn’t do anything until college, until I cornered him in the bathroom at a Halloween party and forced the space between us to shrink.
Anthology
The Clean
Released 1/21/2003
MERGE
134:52
It’s from a distance that I see them, and they look exactly like what they are:... more
Even when I had my brief zoology phase, in elementary school, I always preferred mammals.
Between beeps and coughs, he begged to be unplugged, begged for them to let his fluid tanks run dry.
Previously on...
Part 1 || Prologue
The dog ran alongside me for about twenty yards, then I hit it. Or maybe it hit me. I still don’t know. I felt sick.
