Sparrow
A Protest

At LaGuardia
Airport, Homeland
Security confiscated
my lunch: a plastic
container of curried
lentils, sautéed
broccoli and brown
rice. “You idiots!” I
shouted. “Lunch is
not a bomb! Lentils
are not explosive!
Your insane paranoia
is forcing me to starve!”

Backstory

At 12
I was
a mime,
pulling
grapes
out of
the air.

Modern Love

Thanks to
Internet
dating,
I met
17
weirdos.

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Sparrow lives in a doublewide trailer in Phoenicia, NY. He studies with the Jehovah’s Witnesses simply because he’s lonely.

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