Road Kills

Morris said the key to staying safe while working is keeping your eyes open, knowing your escape route and working quickly. "Do it and get out of there in certain time — no lingering around and making our chances greater.”

“One time I came back from a summer vacation and one of the landfill operators came over laughing,” Boeser said. “He goes, ‘I love it when you’re on vacation. Your son must have tried three times to get a deer off the carrier the other day. He threw up every time.’ ”

Flesh in a porcelain finish—because breaking apart was

only the first step.

Death: a thrift store mirror, cracked in all the bright places.

Roadkill. How it talks back.

Question : Are we there yet?

Feel the wind coming in fours.

Listen to the seasons galloping. The hunters dropping

quail mid-flight.

Kneel if you’ll take me, lips flushed past open.

Kneel any... See more

Driving = job = money = food & shelter. Without food & shelter we would die.

The short equation is: Driving = Life and its counterpart,

Not Driving = Death.

There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in... See more

So many people drive each day in order to "avoid death" that there are traffic jams and accidents. They are willing to play the odds of taking the life of an animal, a human, or even themselves, in order to try to circumvent a more probable demise, given the above equation.

What this boils down to is that those people are willing to swap the (perce... See more