Milk Fed

Worse yet, his wife had just given birth to twin daughters and he now identified as a “feminist.” Ofer was acquiring a perfunctory knowledge of social justice, as dictated by thinkpieces on diversity, inclusion, and equal pay in the Hollywood Reporter.

My mother gave birth to twins: myself and fear.
—Thomas Hobbes

Hunkered down at night

precluded me from having to engage

happiness could be relegated to one thing

heady white floral perfume

waft of her white floral perfum

cajoled me into bed

procure, from nowhere, an incarnation of a mother I wanted

Subway was flanked by two frozen yogurt shops