Language is a virus from outer space, and hearing your name is better than seeing your face
Language!
WELCOME TO ROOM 008
DISEASES OF LANGUAGE, NEW KINDS OF LONELY
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
From Outer Space
Funny how you can’t always make yourself happy but you can always make yourself sad. Okay, it’s not funny but it’s true. It’s how you word it. It’s contagious. It’s sadness. It’s a language disease.
All My Road (Again)
No, not that one, that’s the stupid one for babies and dogs. It’s not even a whisper. Quick before the lights come on. I want the one for cats.
How to Maintain Eye Contact
The proximate cause of everything is eye contact, which is why I have such a hard time with it
How to Maintain Eye Contact
my little bicycle wasn’t sorry, not even capable of saying it. I admired its impression of you.
How to Maintain Eye Contact
This is the definition of the word begotten: brought into existence. This is something I learned from the movie Jurassic Park: Life finds a way.
AUTOFICTION
In New York I invent new kinds of lonely but here, at least,
here there is only one.
How to Maintain Eye Contact
I’d stand there in the not wanting it. The silence all screaming.
How to Maintain Eye Contact
Because this time it will be understood from the beginning that apologies are the third highest form of art, after poems and drunk texting your friends how much you love them you can kiss me if you want to, but if asked, I owe you nothing. Say otherwise, we’re goners.
How to Maintain Eye Contact
After being fitted for a hearing aid my deaf friend was most surprised to find sunlight didn’t hum
How to Maintain Eye Contact
when Annie leans in after knocking back a few and says You’re my special guy. You’re my angel. You fell from Heaven and landed in a Pontiac... well, it’s not the kind of thing she usually says in daylight.
Meet Me at the Page
The history of bad behavior at the Chateau dates to shortly after its founding as a hotel in the 1930s—it was originally built in the 1920s as Los Angeles’s first earthquake-proof apartment building (and would eventually become Los Angeles’s first Lindsay Lohan-proof building).
An Incomplete History of Trouble
I had to. Our faces. What if they got stuck this way?
How to Maintain Eye Contact
Could you help me make something of / all these ringless moments, silent phones / all this waiting for the train to arrive / all these awful stretches we spend / by ourselves in the quiet of / trying not to throw up, please look for me now / settled snow on a frigid night
How to Maintain Eye Contact
Whenever I got like this / I would go to the part of the Everglades called shark valley which I liked because it was also a liar.
How to Maintain Eye Contact
I’m sorry, I love you
Always the first things you’d say aloud
Until I stopped hearing the comma.
How to Maintain Eye Contact
Were were cats sleeping under parked cars and parks sipping from the shower beer of the East River. We were joy, or at least, no one marked joy absent during roll call.
How to Maintain Eye Contact
In fact, that is just the problem, because L.A. hot spots quickly tend to get colder than a dog's nose.
Creating a Scene
It could have been a radio
Praying Mantis
