childhood
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The Pieces I began with / Mozart of ruin / My Darkness, Your Darkness
for most of us the trick never materialized
A Boy Is Burning
“How does it feel?” The heat has long since sucked all the air out of this concrete room. Everything is choked with dust and sweat.
Sneaky Lead Paint Baby
Once upon a time, there was a little baby who lived in a small shack in a big city.
Corpse by the Shore: A Memory
It is hardly bloated, its skin the pale blue-yellow of the bruised, abused cloudless sky reflected in the water; it is face-down, its gender imperceptible, yet my guess is male. No, female.
How Christopher Became a Drunk
Christopher had skipped ahead of the Big Sky man.
Disassembling a Bomb in Blockbuster
Friday night with mother staring at all the VHS lining a Blockbuster wall.
Cult Kid
We arrived in the town after six days of driving. My dad, my brothers, my mom, me, and my dad’s older boyfriend & younger boyfriend.
Hanging Upside Down
It was mid September when I saw Superman.
Still Crying
A car parked in the parking lot, not ten yards away, blasting Kanye West’s “Bound 2”, and it poured through the open window of Alex’s apartment.
The Saddest Piss in the World
I’m standing in a dark closet howling,
screaming like a monkey,
what a monkey sounds like,
what a monkey sounds like on acid,