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October 31 1991
The next day you could see where she had come out of herself dark against the black asphalt. I saw her sometimes, behind sleeping eyes dark curls bouncing head thrown back laughing whole with all of her blood inside of her. I saw him too, crouched down, cowering, shivering blade held high and with all…
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Broke Down.
The numbers on the clock run themselves up like debt hold us captive in the same way trying to pay back what we’ve borrowed interest without long-term interest. On the side of the road, on the curb, hood up, broken down flashing lights behind and a reassuring promise to stick around, I pondered the contents…
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Children Drawing Stick Figures at Night
I don’t think it’s juvenile aesthetics alone and poor motor skills that make us as small children inclined to draw ourselves and each other as stick figures. We are accurate representations of who we really are this way: no distended bellies, fat with greed and gluttony and the taste of our own malcontent No misshapen…
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Nine twenty six thirteen
There is an invisible landscape and I wonder if the cold will strip my skin and make my bones chime together funeral music songs to dance to in the dark. I wonder if, clothed in wool and draped in scarves like melted paint, I will imagine warmth, and will my fingers not to curl up…
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September 19, 2013: Running out of words
Here are some photos instead. They’re pretty much the same thing.
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Rearview
If I could build a time machine and set the dial to eleven fifty-nine pm I’d lock the door and hide in there. I would write constellations in magic marker on the cool metal walls draw shaky letters, half-words on the floor leave a strand of hair behind for the archaeologists to ponder. I would…
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To the Cretin Who Wrote the Ugly Anonymous Letter About the Child With Autism
In case you missed it, some ugly person sent a hate-filled, ugly anonymous letter to the mother of a child with autism, suggesting that the child be euthanized, among other things. You can read my original post about it here. I’ve calmed down just a bit since I wrote that original post, and now I’m…
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Two Babies are Rescued After Being Lost at Sea Because of Parents’ Prejudice
I just covered this story for the web site Liberal America. Sean and Hannah Gastonguay have “moral” objections to abortion and homosexuality, but see nothing wrong with tossing their two babies into a small boat and heading out across the Pacific Ocean, with no apparent navigational skills and scant provisions. Why? They were trying to…
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Maybe.
maybe you remember a time when the sky was small and vast and concealed in the palm of your tiny pale hand and wide, stretched tall against the bleak black backdrop of the universe infinitesimal immense maybe you were just as small and invincible and grand. maybe you remember when each note of a tune…
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April Fox 