title about the author id about-the-author subtitle not pictured genre prose epigraph content the body that surrounds him is his but his insides are not project title stark raving class stark order 19 prev title something about all music being performances of 4 prime 33 prime in places where other bands happen to be playing link music-433 title riptide of memory link riptide memory he was born on a few separate occasions green traffic lights at night there was the day of his conception a tv in front of a dumpster a wintery affair saved for those involved the day he wriggled forth from the dark tunnel of nothing surprise photo of you at walgreen's his mother's womb the founding of his little city deep inside by the small builders a pink dress in the alley behind your house alien as they were and still somehow intimately familiar like any city it had its ups and downs the fever of 1994 me buying a reese's peanut butter cup for a child was especially devastating whose family couldn't afford it but they were a hardy folk in front of me in line at safeway not much given to flight as all things must pass the little city began slowly to decay trees at night their skeletons the old ones claimed the young revealed by a camera flash had no respect for culture anymore they began to die off slowly more quickly than being born two earthworms on pavement after a rain the end was coming closer as the last breath was made the last accounts closed in the city keys tacked to a sign in buffalo park it was given over to other builders man flipping a four-wheeler and walking it off two earthworms on pavement after a rain the-sea the-beach html he was born sixteenth-chapel html a tv in front of a dumpster options html his mother's womb death-zone html green traffic lights stayed-on-the-bus html pink dress in the alley in-bed html in front of me in line at safeway last-bastion html old ones claimed the young creation-myth html last breath last-passenger html four-wheeler deadman html