A Most Familiar Feeling

I sit on a blue plastic seat in the laundry mat near my home. As my jeans, underwear, and shirts wash in two machines, I still think about the two dollars and fifty cents cost per load and how much it will cost to wash all of my clothes, towels, and sheets, as well as [...]

A Strange Experiment

Crunchy.
Peppery.
Then as my teeth break through the waves of crispy golden breading and penetrate the layers of white flesh, a juicy moistness abounds.

Chicken.
Pollo. Poulet. Gallina. Frango.
My eyelids lay down flat as my mouth moves up and down. I breathe in and out, in and out, deeply through my nose. The juices run over [...]