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Lord and Savor
Tell me about this weird moment, he said, chewing an
elongated piece of intestine. He gnawed and gnawed. Tell me about this
epiphaaaneeeee smack smack smack smack gulp, this new revelation that
you—spit—know. I love beef jerky. I love it. I suspect, however, that much of
it is actually pork.
The ceiling fan continued its one-per-minute rotation.
But tell me, young sir, young miss, youngling, what is this thing that happened in a second and is now gone but has changed the way you feel about everything? Tell me, and talk into this tape recorder, then we will let your parents go. It is the plan.
The ceiling fan continued its one-per-minute rotation.
But tell me, young sir, young miss, youngling, what is this thing that happened in a second and is now gone but has changed the way you feel about everything? Tell me, and talk into this tape recorder, then we will let your parents go. It is the plan.
The sun was grey and dusty and the two stared out the county
courthouse windows for a long time. The child also chewed a stick of jerky, and
eventually said that it was when he saw the ponys, he knew he wanted to be a
cowboy, and the man knew that this meant absolutely nothing, and that he was
not, in fact “the one” by any stretch, the prophecy would have none of him,
just some fucking kid, and his parents had been beheaded for nothing.
Sword and Labor
We unfolded the sign over the bridge over the freeway near
the university and the residentials. “FUCK YOUR WAR” it said. The anticipated
military parade didn’t arrive. The city council members who’d voted to fire on
Everett did not pass by. They were in a hotel talking tunnels.
But everyone has their war. We hadn’t taken into
account the use of metaphor in self help books. The passing subarus became
alcoholics, the passing jeeps filled with self doubt. At some point a Dairigold
tanker crashed into the Betty Paige house and everyone fighting a war against
sexual repression just lost, all at once. We were trying to roll the sign up
again once we saw what was happening but it turned out that our war was with
prudent withdrawal, which was also why the walls of so many vaginas collapsed
and we had nothing warm to soften us. Also, the bridge. They warned us
this could happen.
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