Don't look now, Mark, but has The Woman Who Wouldn't Die just come in? Yeah I know you've stuff you really need to bounce off me but that IS her over there at ten past two. Don't look yet! I mean my ten past two anyway. I'm the twelve, not you.
ESSAY
Heavy Lifting
Maybe she stood by him no matter what, because she’d suffered enough heartache. She married her childhood sweetheart and had my brother and me before things fell apart. Her father, who had meant everything to her, died tragically in the projects almost a decade ago. Bernard was her one and only son, and even though it could happen, she didn’t want to believe she could lose him too.
MICRO
my dad accidentally recites a poem
men? thieves.
POETRY
“The Lover” and Two Poems
At the start of summer I thought /
only love could make my body
welcome the earth.
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