Originally published in Geek Out! Queer Pop Lit, Art & Ideas
He moved his bony butt into the bar stool next to me with astonishing rapidity.
His movements of his hand full of bills to bring me drinks were astonishingly rapid.
His rapid movements around my waist in front of everyone astonished us.
His movements into the bathroom, motioning for me to follow him, astonished us by their rapidity.
The rapidity of his movements as he pulled out the glass pipe and offered me a hit was astonishing.
The rapidity with which he moved me from depression into feeling nothing other than desire astonished us.
He astonished us by leading me to the grave and getting me to pick up a shovel and start digging by moving rapidly.
He astonished us by leading me immediately back to freezing by his rapid movements.
He astonished us by telling me the hit was free was because he felt bad for trans women,
and I couldn’t see how fucked that was because I was mesmerized by the rapidity of his movements.
Seed text: The Philosophy of Grammar by Otto Jespersen, p. 91