Sample poem from Diary of a Ghost Girl: In Which Our Children's Children Make a Myth of Us on a Playground nobody has to play Ophelia this time / except for everybody does wear flowers / except for everybody does float / on their backs / in the river / naked / (giggles) / but nobody has to drown / right, nobody has / to drown except / sometimes they want to / except they don't / and isn't that a good story / all by itself the myth is our moms killed the country clubs / the myth is our moms killed / all the men / in polo shirts or / maybe they just choked / on the gravity of expectant collars but / either way our moms resurrected / the khakis and wore them / better / the myth is they were married by the sea / the myth is our moms were two seas but / they took on a whole continent / just to touch / (that's not true) / (yes it is) / (they met over a poem) / (same thing) the myth is mom wrote mom a poem / and in it they were both Sappho / but nobody had to drown / both Leander but they swam / the Black Sea / the shores of Savannah back / into the arms of each other and nobody / nobody drowned / nobody drowned / and everybody wore flowers everybody wears flowers and / nobody plays Ophelia or / everybody wears flowers and / everybody plays Ophelia / except we are all in love / except we are all in love / with each other / everybody plays Ophelia / except we are all / alive