Society is like this card game here, cousin. We got dealt our hand before we were even born, and as we grow we have to play as best as we can.

To think about love and passion and political correctness all together, it doesn't work. Art has to go way past the political to be effective.

my mind ran over scenes of Shesheeb seducing Margaret until I was a wagon dragged by the runaway horses of my jealousy.

I thought how we might have to yell to be heard by Higher Power, but that's not saying it's not there. And that is faith for you. It's belief even when the gods don't deliver.

I have brothers and was a tomboy, if that's still a designation. It wasn't a stretch for me to think and write as a 13-year-old boy - it is freeing.

Our tribe unraveled like a coarse rope, frayed at either end as the old and new among us were taken.

Old love, middle love, the kind of love that knows itself and knows that nothing lasts, is a desperate shared wildness.