gift wrap

Leanne’s blanket [...]

the closest i got to a fight

was with peter.
peter was my friend josh’s babysitter,
but had become josh’s family’s friend
when we were in high school and college.
peter had curly brown hair and also scored 1600 on his SATs
and was an engineering student at stanford while i was in college.
on a trip back to the midwest to visit family,
josh told me that peter’s [...]

fourplay

ok, so, leanne beat me again.
and she did it in a repeat of the ass-whooping she gave me
on the first day of chemo.
chemo treatment 4 found me down in scrabble again
to a woman who was having intravenous benadryl and ativan
pumped into her chest (through a port that mysteriously
decided to behave).
her white cell count was borderline,
but [...]