we had a three volume tome of contemporary slang to keep a handle on all this jive.

• i was a lover, return to cookie mountain (2006)

how many styles did you cycle through before you were mine?

• i was a lover, return to cookie mountain (2006)

beneath the cigarettes and sugar shit of alcohol breath, i can taste the ocean on your tongue. remember when we sat on the sidewalk of your old block against the wall under the stairs talking about love's meaning? well i wasn't dreaming. i meant every single word.

• playhouses, return to cookie mountain (2006)