When You Are Engulfed in Flames

"When You Are Engulfed in Flames" by David Sedaris (2008).

Waiting at the bus stop and reading this, a man with obvious psych issues - (He was also telling other people around him that the man holding a black Hefty bag a few yards away was a man who ratted out on him in prison) - approached me and asked what I was reading. I showed him the book cover. "What's it about?" he asked. "It's about skulls?"

"Yes."

"Skulls?" He laughed. "You're weird." And he left me alone.

There is a skull in the book. The essays in this collection seem to have mortality in mind in his musings about health, sickness, and bodily functions (poop joke!).

Old Faithful, published in the New Yorker, is an essay that appears in the book and fit for V-day perusal.