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.

With certitude was the stove on th… as it always was, warming my feet… next I was on the floor and it flo… and then flashed to a different po… upside down

Incense thick with a scent that is true and a bit soiled and dense so dense I lift

At a certain point in your ordeal, it isn’t your ordeal that bothers… It is the fact that everything is… That’s what really bothers you. Because what happened is not OK,

Wanting anything— What a curse. I take the simplest of shelter, revisit proven feeding grounds, do what my organs demand.

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

Nirvana is acquittal, wearing sweatpants in an empty cou… drunk, singing songs about the Southland. God has fashioned my heart like a…

Love is a svelte dagger, a gentle rapping, a triple-seven. Love is my law, makes me weep,

Therein are the spoils of sorrow, the fruit of hardship, where wind snaps and prevails. Death whispers a hollow secret and I still shiver

“Didn’t I tell you to love everyo… Love everyone. That’s my only business. No small feat, but I have all of eternity.

With a sword karma sets straight what’s veered. By her sword does Justice dispense simply

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

When I see the little holes where the earrings used to be I wonder what they embraced and then renounced to get to now.

Eyes to the ground, cutting through an alley, ruminating about a fight with a si… I notice a stray dog following, when I stop to pet it

Just leave the fucking flags at ha… Or half-staff. Or whatever it’s called. Just fucking leave them there.