“the vomit flies swarming in your belly buzz into the shit and refuse”

Sometimes the criminal's face tells the whole story.

“Those guys were
supposed
to be out there
fixing the car,
tuning the engine”

Deer live in the city and lots of buildings are on fire!

“Envy is the desire to have what others have”

Read every Failing Haus here!

“taking your clothes off and climbing into bed with you”

“once again find ourselves facing one of our oldest demons”

...the blindness that binds us all.

“line my bathtub with trash bags and sleep there in stockings, gloves and a ski mask”

The difference is that we bleed all the time.

“while you are worrying about Miley Cyrus, Syria gassed their own population”

“He survived
10 months in a Ghana prison
to die at The Mall?”

“Your pretty dress a hammer knocking against the eyes of God.”

“The writing is pretty terrific even as the sex gets tedious”

Paying lip service to friendship.

“Obama stuck
his head out the door.
He was wearing an apron”

…Built new churches, leaving the old ones to succumb to nature.

“the weight of everything, Mount Eerie, all the songs you’d sung”

“whiskey,
that philosopher of despair; next, the moon, like
it even cares”