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Napoleon, who can say you don’t deserve my allegiance?

All afternoon it rains on the traffic outside my window. It’s nothing new.

First a mother puts her child to sleep, then the other way around.

All my life, I’d been shy, and I wasn’t about to change that.

He can’t remember the last time they made love. It has become a game.

No matter how hard I played, it was like I was performing inside a vacuum.

He spoke of the river’s origins as though telling of the birth of a god.

You decide that in this city all things are possible, even happiness.

The wine was administered to Theo’s lips, and then the rest of us.

There was something that eluded me, that was always outside the frame.

An expansion into light, or we could have been, or were for a moment.

I’m going to cut me some ham and wait for death to lace his boots.

Call it an echo. Like a sketch of the moon as the moon lies in silvery forms.

Mark was spending his life with one of the world’s weaklings.

Abe shot himself, first year out of high school. Assholes said he was queer.

Eleanor opened the door to Nick’s bedroom and felt breathless with fury.

I began to look for evidence of my father’s duplicity in his body.

I am struck by the otherness of things rather than their sameness.

He sobbed; he said he would go to therapy, stop drinking.

What can go heartbreakingly wrong, and what would you do?

“We know what can happen,” Mike says. “We choose to do this.”

I did lose my dirty fingernails and ragged legs, my purpled forearms.

Liz wore a brass wedding ring, and had no marriage certificate to show.

A suitcase of the body slapped with stickers of scars from every location.

Over the air conditioner, she hears, unmistakable, the bleating of a siren.

Something has to be what this is, old and primitive, and it sounds like this.

Idzia is a little monster. For a monster, though, she’s awfully cute.

In the Nablus apartment she remembers rolling hills of citrus.

I’m not afraid of dying. I’ve died on camera before. It’s not so bad.

You quickly find nothing interests people so much as themselves.