Fog—you watch it race past.
(Good to be reminded of untouchables.)
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There are ways of laying new time over old, not exactly a coat of paint.
But how can you contemplate dying without touching skin to skin?
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At a certain point in the time of a life, the list of what's lost may grow longer faster.
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Vision a little off. (That aura around his toe.)
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All mouth: sometimes I can open wide.
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Mastering the Art of French Cooking
a book on my mother's shelf
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I read in a book: people fear insects more than they do death.
Not I.
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Chicken breasts, onions, mushrooms and cilantro in broth.
But it’s astonishing how little food a person may need.
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It's exactly five o'clock, right now.
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The only way to keep something excruciatingly personal palatable is by making it irresistably beautiful.
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Spinning, knitting, or making lace.
(Possibly aiming for a new kind of face.)
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Just spazzing out?
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The cat and mouse—both—and the rat that gets between.
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Ends—very real, but generally unseen.
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Words on the walls of a maximum security unit in a juvenile hall:
Cretin, teneract, wheezing, toxic, fealty, vanquish, ornithopter, quest, soot.
Migrant, makeshift, furrow, prowess, timidly, transport, align.
Sorrowful, barren. Sobbing.
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Is it sweat or wine through the pores making the bones in a foot attractive to mosquitoes?
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A someone else, so close you recognize him only at the edge of consciousness.
(Sometimes you give in to sleep)
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Fall asleep on the inhale or the exhale?
Does a person tends toward one or the other?
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Craving what upsets equilibrium:
Coffee, alcohol, swings.
Exhaustion.
Obliged to disorient ourselves
with nicotine or on swing sets?
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Always looking for congruence?
Shunning it?
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Cicada, or plane?
Copter.
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You skate around, time zone to time zone in the space of a life.
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No longer go panning for gold.
Now, just wait to be caught, a sweater on a nail, and everything comes unraveled.
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Often, when I'm swimming, fish nip at my toes.
And admit it: you speak in tongues and believe in miracles.
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If nothing else, religion should wash the smirk off your face.
