Cover Story

The woman has no place to be put, the man is restless; his feet are slipshod, The child won't eat greens, he prefers beetroot slices from a sickly can, The family may once have been human, now they have been reduced to cartoons, caricatures tossed into a cardboard box and left out on the curb in the rain. Soon enough, but not right away, a teenager discovers the disintegrating box, he puts the woman in a safe warm place, and waits until the night finds him alone. The restless man and beetroot boy float away along the gutter, until they both fall into a drain. Paper-thin alligators chew on wet talk-bubbles. In the woods behind the school, soft **** magazines are buried in shallow graves, so that the priest will not find them.