The air is tinged with the smell of diesel exhaust, trashfires, and excrement.[…]The haze of trashfires drifted over in a noxious sweet perfume that partially obscured the houses, which emerged like a long row of broken skulls each morning.

their ancestors left of their land a broad and sufficient bierbalk to carry the corpse to the Christian sepulture

Despite their fierce reputation, rattlesnakes (a.k.a. danger noodles) are rather shy and retiring, and they will avoid you at all costs.

Bodystockings may be worn by as undergarments by exotic dancers.