“We want the perfection only seen from the outside in”

“Still, no beat, beat, heartbeat”

“watching fish scour for food off the glass walls of a tank”

“Being transgendered is…”

“It will get stuck in your hair and in your mustache and tangle in your earrings”

“and a monkey made of orange licorice shone down upon us”

“familiar yet like nothing I’ve heard before”

“I could write endlessly on the merits”

“Pour the oysters into your tiny mouth hole”

“transcends the forms and wrestles with the truths of existence”

“social conservative mindset on matters of sexuality: namely, that sex is ugly”

“Fried Chicken Glazed Donuts
Pretty much exactly what it says.”

“Memories of my blood-father’s rageful behavior flash on the screen”

““You gotta piss?” I say.

“Yes,” he says.”

“income for the people violently killing our service members”

“a greater understanding of this widespread intolerance”

“Peace is the anomaly in their lives”

“devours his own children in hopes of wrestling the power back”

“It’s not all doom and gloom death, there’s a lot of really good times”

“but I had no sense of what “queer” was”