The area between his buttocks became slippery.

I carry myself like I was carrying something really heavy

...a razor as big as the world, with anger and gasoline fueling its heart.

sometimes catch hogs

...I crave tuna salad.

In the car, this human that came out of my uterus is sweaty and all I can think about is how she is slowly destroying my car with her sweat.

the butthut.

...I pinched the baby. He screamed bloody murder. Rosa’s eyes called me a bastard. But she was a street-smart woman from Palermo. Even she pinched tiny Salvatore’s rump to make him scream louder, right before the knock came.

i have coupled with various women and have sired children

I knew the diabolical maggot in the bottom of the mezcal bottle to be poisonous, and consequently I could not resist him.