When No One Is Watching

People bury the parts of history they don’t like

“Must be gremlins,” Kim had shouted over her shoulder a week ago as she took a power sander to a brand-new table to make it look old. “Or maybe you’re actually fucking things up when you think you’re fixing them?”

“Bad things happen in this world, every minute of every day. We try to stop them, when we can, how we can. We try to look out for one another.

“But you know us strange white dudes have a hero complex. Of course I’m gonna swoop in and save the day

NOT THINKING TOO DEEPLY BEFORE I ACT HAS LED ME DOWN some pretty bizarre paths in life.

This is some thoughtful shit.

In retrospect I should have just let her be my sugar mama

I’m reminded that even though they stink and cause cancer, a cigarette is sexy as hell in the right hands.

“Well, a church can be a basement, a storefront, a living room. It’s about the faith contained in a place, not the receptacle.

why so many of them are eager to say the n-word if Black makes them squirm