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My wife went vegan.

"When the last tree has fallenAnd the rivers are poisonedYou cannot eat money, oh no"--Aurora"How many ears must one man have/ before he can hear people cry?"--Bob DylanWhy are you still running over there? When you knowit's all happening over here? Something…

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When the truth is spoken, we don’t know Where to look, as if we only know someone Has gotten away with something big Or stolen someone’s heart, knowing how easy It was, how fragile, how true to itself So open and weightless, without guile

Weekly game night for the Oscar Family. Winning is secondary.

I can’t hold a job I can’t hold a hammer

His white shirt gleams

This is no time for those of a religious persuasion. No.

To be the hand...

Miranda laughed. The cream of the retail industry laughed...

I had a hell of a time finding the M16. The last one was made in 2075 and when I asked around half the people I talked to barely even knew what a rifle was. Through some of my old military connections, I met Taddeo who called himself a “gun genealogist” and who…

The monkey did not live for long. He’d lost interest in the stuffed dog pretty much right away. The farther away the shuttle, the more garbled and fanciful the sign language the monkey had been taught became.

After you lost sight in your left eye, mom made me go on the road with you that last summer to help you see.

Who's that? I don't know. …

Mrs. Death was walking in mountains where everything around was still. Mr. Death? —in another hemisphere, wandering (last she’d heard) through a vast forest.

I lack the intellect, discipline, and faith in anything but our ultimate erasure.