LOVER

Checklist

Shantrelle, Cleaver, Abandoned Building                                                                 photo ©EUnderwood

 

1. My whole life
2. Is a personal challenge
3. kindness, justice and love
4. I start with a little
5. is often painful
6. and growth of a spiritual experience
7. We nevertheless found ourselves alone in the world
8. to be unafraid
9. What were you thinking
10. Those women who betray women
11. Love as a moral imperative
12. not all mothers are mothers
13. A tendency to look
14. You do it every hour
15. I just wanna run
16. Those goddamn bitches
17. who exist
18. I know a few
19. Being able to say no
20. it is necessary for survival
21. Transformer
22. riots and racism in America
23. I had to answer the phone
24. the first time I'd really been funny
25. with the heavy metal band
26. you feel like you're on a team
27. And I wasn't 
28. My dad was always right about that
29. I won't tell you
30. my Indian name
31. Do I remember that I have a right?
32. Trauma recovery therapy
33. Degrees

Checklist (Montana)

1. Ghost hunting
2. rusting American sedans that wouldn't fetch much even as spare parts
3. Having visited his spleen, the biker whispered
4. We're going to build a farming center right here
5. When I was young, a long time ago
6. Serious rodeo journalism
7. About six pounds of fluids
8. Several hundred old-timers
9. The anonymous crowd quickly went
10. Fallen cabins
11. "Did you see the hanging?" "I did." 
12. It was a very cold evening.
13. The dogs/close to our hearts
14. A trim athletic man, neatly dressed in a cowboy shirt
15. A-kok-kiai-wa, Many Bears
16. No wonder the bears were attacking campers
17. Bulls have names like Grand Coulee, Rain Dance and Roughneck.
18. Comical and dangerous
19. Bat-wing chaps
20. I'm in love
21. Havin taken a responsible stance
22. We rocked from side to side
23. The church really helped me
24. The heart, or perhaps the liver
25. I wandered through the crumbling red-light district
26. A thick pastry shell stuffed with herbs and onions
27. Last night a horse's teeth ripped a 3 inch gap in his neck
28. I looked in his eyes for some recognition
29. Mirth and myth making in progress
30. Not so much as individuals but as a team
31. Wiped his eyes with his bandana
32. But the highway called
33. Degrees