Only a girl like this

can know what's happened to you.

If she were here she would

reach out her arms towards

you now, and touch you

with her absent hands

and you would feel nothing, but you would be

touched all the same.

“On the way home from school we go to the record store... [Cordelia] expects me …”

“Sex is like a drink, it's bad to start brooding about it too early in the day.”

“. . . they lurk passively, like vampire sheep”

“So we couldn't mingle with them, but we could eavesdrop. We got our knowledge t…”