We're invisible. I've never been here with someone else. It's different being invisible with someone.

Was it animal pee or human pee? Someone asked. How would I know? What, am I an expert in the study of pee?

I hope we get pulled over, he says. I'd like to see how the cop responds to a black man wearing a Confederate T-shirt over a black dress.

Half-drunk on well-creamed gas station coffee and the exhilarating loneliness of a freeway in nighttime.

It is so hard to leave-until you leave.

I believe in that line from An Imperial Affliction. 'The risen sun too bright in her losing eyes.' That's God, I think, the rising sun, and the light is too bright and her eyes are losing but they aren't lost.

You die in the middle of your life.