Things I Heard Yesterday

It dries up my mouth, it sucks all the moisture out of it.

Do you remember last year’s medication shortage?

Like a fisherman’s black boot …

Celebrate the bullet. If you’re not ska, you’re dead.

It’s a different version of the same cavil.

Did you see Hopper in Apocalypse Now?

What do you have? Oppositional defiant disorder?

Well, bless him, he’s looking out for us.

Due to disagreements a group of men sway public opinion and gain office operating with intimate friends.

Deliquescent means what?

Did you know osmium is the heaviest element?

I don’t know if they did claim it in their tax returns or not.

Woop, woop, wooooeeeeaahh!

Anyone who deals with abused and traumatized kids … sexual abuse speeds up their biological clock and secretes sex hormones.

Juan recommends the latest influencers.

Is that empty?

No study had ever followed mollusks in these conditions.

A bodily fluid spill kit?

We laughed as we watched the dog try in vain.

The rampaging sans-culottes wrecked churches.

Thank you for your order.

Lacking friends in elementary school makes a crucial difference.

Fevers, fevers and pustules!

It’s a complex and rocky time when friends can suddenly turn on one another.

Standby power is wasted electricity.

Allow the actuator to air dry completely.

There’s neither intelligence or support from family and peers.

Good morning, South Florida, I’m …

What I’m Reading:

“I promise you, I was here. I felt things that made death so large it was indistinguishable from air—and I went on destroying inside it like wind in a storm.”

— Ocean Vuong / “Not Even” / Time Is A Mother