They arrive just after the mail slides into my basement. Gruesome, pieces that portend the ends, pieces that illuminate the furnace with a band of indomitable cream: I dream about employment at the mouse trap factory, where my father and my father’s father worked, but I was born with hapless eyes and the attention of a gemstone. Treat me better, my legs whisper, don’t grind me to tent pegs the way the viejos have
The Mail
The Mail
The Mail
They arrive just after the mail slides into my basement. Gruesome, pieces that portend the ends, pieces that illuminate the furnace with a band of indomitable cream: I dream about employment at the mouse trap factory, where my father and my father’s father worked, but I was born with hapless eyes and the attention of a gemstone. Treat me better, my legs whisper, don’t grind me to tent pegs the way the viejos have