here where the ambulances howl like dogs

this balloon followed me through the ralph's parking lot, got himself tangled in the seam of white lightning's back door, and begged me to take him home

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he stuck his head out the window all the way down 7th street

the neighbors are doing the best they can

sometimes you're just lucky to be twenty-four years old and have a mother who will still grind up your pills for you