If we really do get what we give then I give up, so I can get up.

Stop congregating in the valley just because an echo sounds good when it agrees with itself.

Knowing me is easy. You can still twist your hair and feel silly. Look up the word tacky and have a salad. But when we're together you pull bread apart with your fingers into bites sometimes so small I gotta remind you, Peach, it is okay to be hungry.

Stop inviting walls into wide open spaces.

Jordan tattoos the words "forgive me" in thick black letters down the inside of his arm so that when he looks at his wrist he will remember not to hate himself so much. What he keeps forgetting is that there is life after survival.

Everybody knows that smiling is for little girls, the gays and certain kinds of fish who are smiling by accident.

But I still show up for gentleman practice in the company of lead dancers, hoping their grace will get stuck in my shoes.