Trio No. 24

1. 

She drew hard on a cigarette and then flicked it into a pile of dry leaves.

It smoldered there for a few seconds and then died.

Nothing interesting ever happens around here.

2. 

They told us all that sex is not normal and that people who want to have it are deranged or depraved and to be avoided and when we grew up and married one another still we could not have it because even the thought of having it filled us with shame and guilt because of what they had told us and we lived into old age and died unhappy and that was the end of the human race.

3.

A list of objects and compound objects:

A wooden boot jack. 

A bowl of onions. 

Six dogs on six leashes. 

Cardamom pods. 

A worn salt shaker. 

An anchor. 

A bent nail in the claw of a framing hammer. 

The cold floor of a basement workshop. 

The only window in an empty room. 

A field of dandelions. 

A garden of marigolds. 

A pot of gardenias.