These are in black-and-white, and we are meant to imagine them burning, like photographic exposures, into the Guevara conscience.
"Depressed Girl" expressed a similar sentiment: "I can't tell you how much it scares me; I can't even imagine myself burning in the fire.
He imagined her on her days off lighting cigarettes from noon till dawn, imagined them burning down in a room defined by drawn shades and muttering talk shows.
We mimed the soldiers' mysterious agony, being counselled by the drama teacher to imagine "a burning watermelon" between our legs.
I liked to imagine the heat burning all my excess cargo away — I could stand to lose a few, like the next guy — until all that was left was a pure residue of Charlie D. Most other guys hollered that they were cooked after ten minutes and red-assed it out of there.
Imagine a dollar burning a hole in your pocket because you don't know if it will be worth 60 or 30 cents in a few months.
One of Decaul's pieces, "Shush," finds him repeating, like a mantra, "I've been talking in my sleep again," as he imagines muzzle flashes, burning diesel and "sandbag eyes, large like dish plates, scared".
For example, imagine a fire burning and try to put it out with your hands.
