Sublime

him

Dharma Bums

I envied those two. They kissed. I wanted to be both of them. I wanted to be strong enough to hold someone, or lovely enough to be held.

simpatico.

The nurse was a sick-looking man with grey, translucent teeth. He sucked them, audibly, as we walked. I wondered if he’d begun working here as a healthy person and then slowly absorbed the aura of madness and death surrounding him. I wondered what I was absorbing in my line of work.

I save all my emails.

Jonah

Like once when I was thirteen, I had carved a girl’s initials into a tree to pretend that I had a girlfriend, and then years later when I saw the initials, I smiled happily because I momentarily believed my own falsehood.