Head & Shoulders
“We agree about everything; our dependence on Nyquil, the tragedy of internalized misogyny, and the exact punctuation to use when texting fuckboys.”
The Parapsychologists
“From the driveway, Professor Jahn was visible standing behind the screen door. He did not motion or wave as we drove off. He just watched us leave.”
The Dead Guys
“We always did the same things every day: we went into the toy store and rearranged all the Rubik’s Cubes. We went into the library and looked at the medical encyclopedias or biographies of old ugly white guys in wigs.”
September Re-readings of an August Letter Never Sent Toward Jericho in the Shadows of the Fading Sun
“Four Italians and an Israeli sitting in a blue Chevrolet. It could be the start of a joke.”
Stages of Departure
“What do you do when you suspect
that you’ve unleashed the atom bomb of the Universe”
King of All Fruits
Passover the lychees.
Lost Pieces
“Nails are too long,
can’t remember to cut them
they are colored with everything I hold
like the skin of orange peel—
a citrus flesh that never bleeds”