sherman_alexie – blackandwhiteandcolours

That makes perfect sense.

Do you want a beer?

There would be visual evidence.

Everything is temporary.

It’s hard work.

This is unexpected.

There was no echo.

I imagine it was mostly an accident

Then everybody went away

They were alive; they’d keep living

Play it again

Don’t look at me like that

It’s been a long time

So what’s the plan today?

He walked outside while the women stayed inside

In his dream, he sat, all hungry and lonely, in his house and wanted more

They’re like an old married couple, enit?

I think it’s time for us to go home

He just got his heart broken

I wanted to know how it felt to run

Don’t you know the grass is always green

Let’s go someplace else

We all have pain

The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don’t know

So I draw because I feel like it might be my only real chance

Don’t worry, the old man said, winking. I’ll sing one of my short ones.

It’s hard to tell sometimes what people are

I unpacked my bag and found a dead cockroach