I saw him on the side of the road, on the side of the interstate exit… Maybe he was 18, definitely not 21… tired but not yet haggard. The moment I saw him

The Rock made me to see each month as a day. The Rock implored that I be patie… with a patience so radical it slips into renunciation

Trees poke from the earth like the mummified hands of the martyrs. Buried alive, they strained with last breath

Love is endless. Mercy, too. A great debt unpaid, sitting on my doorstep, first-class.

Like a Somali pirate just pull up on the Grim Reaper, surprise him

I would lie with my hand on the B… I would lie with my hand on a stac… of Holy Qurans. I would look you dead-in-the-eye, and tell you a lie.

Mowing with the sickle I stop abruptly and remember crawling out the window to smoke on the roof

Oh, Death! Two beers and I’m on my back! Skipped the shower, skipped the toothbrush. Just a film of sweat,

The duration of a miracle is exactly one moment, after that you may as well be talking about what happened in the big game last night.

This day, there is no ONE to beat your fist… No party, no tyrant, not even a faction—

Like a distillation column, as I lighten so does my company, but it’s been the perfect quiet. So why cry violence? You can keep such good company

I remember being unmoved at more than one funeral at more than one memorial looking about impatiently impervious to the cries of the cry…

I still know what it is to dance, I won’t discount romance, and if I like how it looks, I’ll eat it or wear it

I’ll give you what I got, I can part with it all. I have gifts— A silk tongue,

Here in the suburb of Royalwood e… looks as it did decades ago, entro… where the deep slumber of human li… age and breed with rapidity and se… We sat out here and explored the…