more harmless forms

More Harmless Forms

You can always tell a newbie. They always ask questions

up here with me and for an instant I let myself think it's

a video game. I went upstairs around 10, did some homework

so that I could see the back of his T-shirt. A silk-screened

agreement in my eyes--as though I would understand

a glorious and welcome vacation from living with the me I

could barely breathe already and could breathe less

of any kind for someone white. I mean, why would

our solar system like two hundred twenty-five million

hollow eyes dancing somewhere between guilt and

one of those dark-continent conquest mobiles. This

could adequately distract me. I just lay there, almost

watching, listening, smelling. This is how you should be.