Albatross

For years now, I've found that when it is difficult to handle a situation the best thing to do is justify some kind of diversion—sometimes there is sense in avoidance.

Dear Gregory,
I'm going to smash your head with a brick and chop your balls off with a meat cleaver and run over you with a big ugly truck, damn you.
Love,
Fred the Killer.

Some things can't be fixed."

You see, in the silence so much more was said than ever could be spoken by polite patter

man blessed with vision but cursed by honesty.

Maybe you're strong enough to confront everything head-on. Good for you. I'm certainly not.

For years he and I used to drink beer together and burp and tell dirty stories out of our increasingly fictionalized pasts.

excuse for obnoxious behavior and language

"Your life is just as screwed up as anybody else's.

how the mind tries to protect us from levels of harshness we are unready to bear