Nerdighters make me believe in America again.

The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, there was no longer anyone to remember with.

Something about telling that story made my gut grow back together." What?" Oh, nothing. Just thinking out loud." That's who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of." The people who've been in your secret hiding places." The people you bite your thumb in front of." Hi." Hi." ..." ..." Wow. My first Lindsey." My second Colin." That was fun. Let's try it again." Sold." ..." ..." ...".

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.

I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness.

I want to see you again tonight. But I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow.

Grateful to be a little boat, full of water, still floating.