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.
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