Although parts of this book began as early as 2020, most of it was strewn together between 2023 and 2024. I gave away a lot of my work, both poems and drawings, for many years. What remains survived a friend’s teething puppy.

Some dreams, some black-out poetry I made from a few vintage smut books I was given as a joke, a recipe for pierogis, a souvenir card from a man I met while homeless in Tucson…. memories, memories.

I scanned what remained of the book, then burned its contents in a flower pot while converting to Christianity in 2025.