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2title: epigraph
3subtitle: An epigraph
4genre: prose
5
6project:
7 title: Elegies for alternate selves
8 css: elegies
9 order: 1
10 next:
11 title: How to read this
12 link: howtoreadthis
13 prev:
14 title: Death's Trumpet
15 link: deathstrumpet
16...
17
18I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story.
19From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future
20beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and
21another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and
22another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and
23Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and
24Attila and a pack of [other lovers][] and queer names and offbeat professions,
25and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these
26figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in
27the crotch of this fig tree, starving to [death][], just because I couldn't
28make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one
29of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there,
30unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one,
31they plopped to the ground at my feet.
32
33[other lovers]: spittle.html
34[death]: deathstrumpet.html