They appear on the screen of his flip-phone<\/p>\n
small squares becoming large<\/p>\n
grainy, somewhere below 240p<\/p>\n
he took them on the last call<\/p>\n
‘You know how some people say we’re social animals,’ he says<\/p>\n
as I’m met with body after body<\/p>\n
bullet-riddled and bent over<\/p>\n
limbs lackadaisical or ramrod<\/p>\n
eyes wide with mouths agape<\/p>\n
‘Well, we aren’t.’ Dragging on his cigarette<\/p>\n
fathers, brothers, husbands<\/p>\n
rendered into useless fat<\/p>\n
mind-break fuel<\/p>\n
free anatomy lessons<\/p>\n
funerals without open coffins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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