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In a future we believe in, these plants will all be ghosts.

I believed in department stores the way I believed in Germany.

Keely finally stops crying when they step outside. The shock of cold.

Your image is on my credit card, you and the old red, white, and blue.

The dead children were wheeled away, covered with white sheets.

In other words, beachfronts like Bolaño’s and mine are Nowhere.

I hate it here, but I’ll make the best of it, because that’s what mothers do.

She gives her daughter her birth certificate and oil money: Go.

We couldn’t tell which of us was a girl or a boy we gorged on dirt.

It was the sixties, and I was in
college and incredibly restless.

If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.

The boat’s one of the most flagrant symbols capitalism ever spawned.

“It’s true I wanted an adventure, but I had a different kind in mind.”

If a friend’s family is persecuted, call Sinn Fein on that number.

I asked for water, and he shot me a look of henpecked resentment.

Find a hair in the rose bush, wrap it around a thorn until that thorn is soft.

Too bad there is no oil between her legs that 4-year-old Muslim girl.

Be glad the numbness in your legs isn’t reading on your face.

This Lee was a woman, and she was a painter, and she was good.

I saw my mother’s face turn dark like the winter sky before a storm.

I returned to Vietnam with a tape recorder to collect ca dao.

No one tells you what it sounds like out in the streets when bullets clang.

On her tongue was a wick and her body was invented a nation of lice.

Papa’s link to that pond was a matter of blood. And the delicious carp.

“Mom, don’t you think the fucking racism is worse than my profanity?”

This book club has rules, Carolyn. Everyone HAS to read the book!

The financial plan works if we eat 40% of the kids before college.

Don’t worry. I’ve performed this procedure hundreds of times.

Great new cartoons by Feggo, Katz, LeLievre, Sipress, and Stevens.

Chris Weyant