with all your sweet talk

"With All Your Sweet Talk," April 17, 2022 (#107)

title from "Heroin" by Velvet Underground (1967)

The Son by Philipp Meyer (2013)

Jesus: A Biography from a Believer by Paul Johnson (2010)

Jesus' Son: Stories by Denis Johnson (1992)

I Can't Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I've Put My Faith in Beyoncé by Michael Arceneaux (2018)

With All Your Sweet Talk

We continued to climb the hill. The afternoon was cool and

each human being was a unique, priceless entity loved by

the first man as I was going home from a dance at the

hurt I felt by my mother’s words. It further strained

the afternoon, on a high rock in the sun. I shot

to attract intelligent, educated, cultured, and sensitive

apples in it, or some such, but they were, in fact, slimy

unplanned pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases. And no

hands to wander but they didn't. She began to move

about morals, but she knew all about the

hands or squeezing their shoulders, because

this only made him appear all the more like the

long time ago, and in another

message in this respect.

4-10-22 of art by Tom Sachs

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