My Cardboard Balcony

Two by Belinda Roddie two blue boys played in a room that was painted thirty different shades of nostalgic moments sitting at the bar, asking a redhead, "Where are you from?" "I'm from a planet fraught with warfare with lions chewing tanks and swallowing chunks of" your hand against my lower back, where the tailbone meets with the staircase hidden in blue

The sultan sat. The bells rang. And all the stage was blazing with the monks' bodies. Across the globe, a rabbi taught the story of Moses to a group of college students. They all wore greens and blues. One wore purple because another young gay boy had thrown himself off a bridge. And in every corner of the world, it rained a little puddle and the oceans grew a little saltier.