Wander around Washington, DC long enough in a bow tie and a flag pin, you can land any number of free five-course meals replete with stemware and a salad fork. This luncheon was something special though.
Causes, in many ways, similar to those that felled the young men I knew: jungle rot, youthful folly, despair, and gunfire.
“White expats like to say there are three types of us in Africa: missionaries, mercenaries, and misfits. I was, obviously, the misfit.”
This is a scared man’s bet.
The insults piled on top of each other like a chain of cars crashing at high speed.
Maybe I still hadn’t gotten my period or anything, but surely this was proof: things were real and we were getting older.
Many birders keep track of the birds we’ve seen on a “Life List,” with species, date and location.
Please, God, don’t give me anything to write about, I think, as a straggly-haired technician moves the wand around inside me.
Rust climbs happily along these old parked VWs, in no real hurry to decompose. Vines full of unnecessary flowers unfurl at their own damn leisure.
The cancer chews holes in my bones.
I lose pieces of my skull.
