we only asked for leopards to guard our thinning dreams.

magic persists without us no matter what we may do to try to spoil it

American women drove hard bargains and the ended up looking the worst for it. The few natural American women left were mostly in Texas and Louisiana.

I had no feeling for the things so many others needed.

Some nights I knew that if I slept I would die.

I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.

I'm not the cruel type, but they are, and that's the secret.