The currency here baffles. The sun, like all slowly dying things, is brazen and persistent. My arms fold and unfold, shadowing the wrinkling of my brow. Here her skin peels off to reveal more skin. Why we bother to get filthy when all the dirt washes so easily off is beyond me. I am unrehearsed. I am naked, late and unprepared. When I tell her I love her, it is in my own language and she pretends to understand but how could she? She who says love like opening a palm, like closing a fist, like waving; says love like a truth nobody would bother to question. I write stories on her skin which peels off only to reveal more skin. Blood comes in quantities I am unable to measure, unwilling to guess—uncertain it is actually blood at all. Every morning the sun, like all slowly dying things, rises hopeful and unafraid. There is no courage here. When I tell her I love her, it is in my own language and she pretends to understand but how could she? She who says love with no trace of fear, no trace even of the knowledge of fear. If all this dirt washes off, what are we doing in the mud?
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ROY COUGHLIN is the mutant alley child of a banana slug and the cute redhead who works at Family across the street from Animal and who (please) fantasizes of being penetrated anally by Zooey Deschanel. (The cute redhead and the banana slug will never, ever really meet.) The cute redhead has two brains. She has a mutant brain in her colon. It's just like the brain in everyone's colon except about 11,000 times smarter and more powerful. It's capable of thinking thoughts like, Summer is over and we're going to be beaten to death in our slippers! and then instantaneously translating the thought into, like, a New Yorker cover by David Hockney. The banana slug has a mutant optical tentacle. The mutant tentacle can recognize sexy mouthparts. One time the banana slug was copulating and its penis got chewed off by its partner slug (no worries) and the banana slug realized that not every sexy mouthpart is a safe mouthpart. (Note to Family: "Not every sexy mouthpart is a safe mouthpart" would look good in gold across your window.) Roy is the phantom mutant alley child spawned by the cute redhead in a nonexistent daydream of being anally penetrated by a Berber houseboy Zooey Deschanel.
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