Let’s get it straight. The president and the pope aren’t riding the new gay wave
war’s price tag so fast it’s nearly impossible
to keep track of the scrolling billions
I’m wondering if the thaw is hurt or kiss
when she peeks around the bones and entices my steer-
ing. At the thaw, my wheel buddy flashes
The stenc of death filled the smoky air as five stiff and
bloated naked bodies – their hands tied together behind their
back – lay strewn on the sidewalk, among empty sacks of
looted flour, tin cans and cardboard boxes. A headless
The packing takes us an hour, and we let the piano
sonatas fill the quiet. Maybe Mom would have stayed
if Dad did something more interesting than raise
worms and work at the post office. But it probably
wouldn’t matter anyway. She wanted to be a singer
action to mathematics, without under-
standing or empathy. To have learned to
think ‘you’re you, no matter what’ about
those we love and even those we don’t
know has alleviated an enormous amount
of unnecessary pain
When they got to Chinatown, the shops were just closing. In
the window of the butcher shop dead ducks spread and dan-
gled; there was a pig with cherries for eyes. Fish flickered on
the sidewalk in plastic bags. The bakery was full of plump
pork buns splitting with filling, sticky wedges of rice pastry,
glossy, wet, white noodles, flabby on thin paper and sprinkled
with what looked like red and green confetti. People hurried
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