Our Love Was The Affliction For Which

Language Is Never Fully Trustworthy, But When It Comes To Eating Animals, Words Are As Often Used To Misdirect And Camouflage As They Are To Communicate. Some Words, Like Veal, Help Us Forget What We Are Actually Talking About. Some, Like Free-range, Can Mislead Those Whose Consciences Seek Clarification. Some, Like Happy, Mean The Opposite Of What They Would Seem. And Some, Like Natural, Mean Next To Nothing.

We Cracked Up Together, Which Was Necessary, Because She Loved Me Again.

We've Made Science Experiments Of Ourselves And Our Children.

The Question, I've Come To Think, Is Not What Inspires One To Change, But What Inspires One To Remain Changed.

Sometimes I Can Hear My Bones Straining Under The Weight Of All The Lives I'm Not Living.