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The glazed impatience of businessmen standing closer to strangers than they would ever choose to.

Telling some helium-voiced girl that life is essentially one long search for an ashtray

Every floral unit on the grounds has its pistil aprick and petals atremble in a truly shameless fashion, for the bees are about.

I have heard steel drums and eaten conch fritters and watched a woman in silver lamé projectile-vomit inside a glass elevator.

The ghastly wounds in her cheeks look for all the world like somebody got at her with a woodburning kit at some point in her career path.

a straight spine, but for the swan's curve of her neck and the bit of the hip-shot pelvis with which she pummeled the unwary

A sort of soft light broke inside me for the first time in weeks. I called a cab, still in my towel. I jumped in the cab before it had even stopped at the gate. I actually said ‘the nearest library with a cutting edge professional grief and trauma therapy section and step on it’

she was just too Goddamn-all petrifyingly pretty to approach any other way but liquored up past all horror

an odd hot euphoria that made me walk with the water-jointed jaunt of the person who truly does not give a shit one way or the other

Her favorite doll had been the mere head of a doll, the body was lost and it lay now forever supine and unknowing...while its head lived on

Overhead, on the mezzanine, the THIGHMASTER lady's still at it, on her side, head on her arm, smiling cross-eyed into space.

while I, sedated, will have slept like a graven image

bright-red fingernails and deeply tanned, hard, seamed faces, sprayed hair shaped by the professional fingers of men with French names

in heavy seas you feel rocked to sleep, with the windows' spume a gentle shushing, the engine's throb a mother's pulse

Cinnamon girl, spiced cream, honey to kiss, melt hot around the center of me.