The moment the world declares a person to be immortal, at that moment the person will strive to prove the world wrong. In the face of glowing press releases and reviews the most heralded women starve themselves or cut themselves or poison themselves. Or they find a man who's happy to do that for him.

These flowers will be rotten in a couple hours. Birds will crap on them. The smoke here will make them stink, and tomorrow a bulldozer will probably run over them, but for right now they are so beautiful.

Your heart is my piñata.

Think of spoiled cat food and ulcerated cankers and expired donor organs. That's how beautiful she looks.

This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.

A couple drinks. A couple aspirin. Repeat.

The world can be a lot bet­ter than we set­tle for. All you have to do is ask.