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Past Lives
Every weekend, she went to the city & looked through the bones of the dead for old clothes & bits of fashion jewelry. She always seemed a bit tattered, but I didn’t say much about it. I was still young & hadn’t settled on a past I was comfortable with yet either.
Gathering Electrons
This hair gathers electrons from the atmosphere & uses it to perpetuate new ideas about hair’s role in the history of civilization.
Frostbite
Trying out his theory that if your hands & your head are warm the rest doesn’t matter but so far all he can think about is how much it’s going to hurt if his penis freezes off.
Enough Worry
There are things I refuse to show you, my mirror told me. You’ve got enough to worry about already.
Crayon Pirate
There was a single blue line of crayon drawn across every wall in the house. What does it mean? I said. A pirate needs the sight of the sea, he said & then he pulled his eye patch down & turned and sailed away.
Civilization Machine
this is a machine that’s supposed to make civilization, but it’s only theoretical
because it takes a lot more civilization than we’ve got at the moment to get it to work