I realized that maybe my Daddy hadn’t wanted to be a Daddy, that maybe my Mama didn’t want to be a drunk little lady, that Kira maybe wasn’t who she wanted to be.
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When the Ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus said that no man walks through the same river twice I imagine that he meant that every minute that goes by the level of discrete molecules of this thing that we refer to as the conduit, or waterway, of a river, despite whatever arbitrary name we give to it, is different; and as his cynosure was exclusively that of the terrain of watery carbon mound, man, his real meaning was that no one is the same from one moment to the next.
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She uses the vacuum she brought
in her tight gray shorts beneath her
black-and-white splotched top Jackson-
Pollacked, but not in the way Mary
Frances said I Jackson-Pollacked
her after our first night when she
said I would need a better reason
to ask any girl to come over– so,
do you want to meet my cats?
The rain had stopped by the time you kissed me
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We, too, are tourists, but looking for a different kind of monument, a different souvenir. In truth, we do not know for what we are searching.
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I even started setting my clocks a few minutes early on auspicious days, as if I could outwit time itself.
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Do not be afraid young man, we’re both souls wandering in the darkness.
You and I are no different.
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