Taste: Interesting pairings--Raspberry-coconut muffins, sweet, fat grease; caramel and sugar snap peas Touch: the column of books sinking into my lap and sliding: the notebook, the slim novel with yellowed pages and the unwieldy dictionary Smell: the tang of fevered night sweats: salty and bitter Sight: his long, delicate upturned eyelashes as he invites me to the youth drag show; the yellow-black dart of a double-espresso stained tongue Sound: It's the dusk of early evening, but suddenly feels like 2 a.m. when I'm listening to And One. Panzermenschen=German tank Extra: off kilter driving in an emotional peak, "Because why? Because consequences. Because are we on this earth or an island?" (George Saunders, "The Barber's Unhappiness"); bouyant hyper geek-state joie de vivre
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