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1 | --- | ||
2 | title: 'Statements' | ||
3 | subtitle: 'a fragment' | ||
4 | project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves' | ||
5 | ... | ||
6 | |||
7 | I. Eli {#i.-eli .unnumbered} | ||
8 | ------ | ||
9 | |||
10 | "Can one truly describe an emotion?" Eli asked me over the | ||
11 | walkie-talkie. He was in the bathroom, & had taken the walkie-talkie in | ||
12 | with him absent-mindedly. I could hear sounds of his piss hitting the | ||
13 | toilet water. | ||
14 | |||
15 | "I can hear you peeing," I said. He didn't answer so I said in apology, | ||
16 | "It's okay. Humans are sexually dimorphic." I was sitting on my blue | ||
17 | baby blanket texting Jon, who was funny and amicable over the phone. He | ||
18 | made a three-message joke about greedy lawyers and I would have been | ||
19 | laughing if not for my embarrassment toward Eli. He finally came out of | ||
20 | the bathroom and kept his eyes straight ahead, toward the wall calendar | ||
21 | and not at me, as he passed through the family room into his bedroom, | ||
22 | were he shut the door quietly. Presently I heard some muffled noise as | ||
23 | he turned on his iPod. I guessed he didn't feel like talking so I stayed | ||
24 | on my blanket watching the Price is Right and texting Jon. | ||
25 | |||
26 | Drew Carrey was doing his wrap-up speech on TV when Eli finally came out | ||
27 | of his room, red puffy streaks covering his face. His eyes and nose were | ||
28 | red too, which was almost festive against the pale green and white of | ||
29 | the wallpaper. I had been laughing at the goofy costumes on the Price is | ||
30 | Right and the jokes Jon was texting me, but when Eli came out of the | ||
31 | room I stopped and just looked at him as well as I could. He was staring | ||
32 | at my right shoulder as he said, "Go home now." | ||
33 | |||
34 | "What?" | ||
35 | |||
36 | "I said go home now. I don't want you here anymore, because I just | ||
37 | remembered I have someone coming over and I have to clean." | ||
38 | |||
39 | "Look, Eli, I'm sorry---" | ||
40 | |||
41 | "It doesn't have anything to do with you, I swear. Just go, okay? Go | ||
42 | home now." | ||
43 | |||
44 | I got up and tried to give him a hug but he withdrew from me sharply. So | ||
45 | I walked around the coffee table as he sat down, not looking at me | ||
46 | anymore, and stared at the blank TV. The blanket I had been sitting in | ||
47 | was crumpled next to him like a dead bird. I opened my mouth but thought | ||
48 | better of talking, and closed the door behind me slowly. | ||
49 | |||
50 | II. Dimorphic {#ii.-dimorphic .unnumbered} | ||
51 | ------------- | ||
52 | |||
53 | Oranges. Poison. A compromise | ||
54 | between Mary & Judas. Blue | ||
55 | baby blankets swaddling greedy lawyers. | ||
56 | |||
57 | Can one truly describe an emotion? | ||
58 | I cut my ankle with a razor blade. | ||
59 | I can only go one at a time. Humanity | ||
60 | has a seething mass of eels | ||
61 | for a brain, mating in the water so forcefully | ||
62 | that it could drown you under the moon. | ||
63 | |||
64 | III. Declaration of Poetry {#iii.-declaration-of-poetry .unnumbered} | ||
65 | -------------------------- | ||
66 | |||
67 | You have to go one line at a time, and you have to start on the first or | ||
68 | second line. | ||