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| 2 | title: 'Dead man' | ||
| 3 | project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves' | ||
| 4 | ... | ||
| 5 | |||
| 6 | A dead man finds his way into our [hearts][] \ | ||
| 7 | simply by opening the door and walking in. \ | ||
| 8 | He pours himself a drink, speaks aimlessly \ | ||
| 9 | about hunting or some bats he saw \ | ||
| 10 | on the way over, wheeling around each other. \ | ||
| 11 | Look how [they spin][], he says, it's like the \ | ||
| 12 | ripples atoms make as they hurl past each other \ | ||
| 13 | in the space between their bodies. \ | ||
| 14 | We mention the eels at the aquarium, how \ | ||
| 15 | their bodies [knot while mating][]. The dead man \ | ||
| 16 | was a boyscout once, and tied a lot of knots. \ | ||
| 17 | His favorite was the one with the rabbit \ | ||
| 18 | and the hole, and the rabbit going in and out \ | ||
| 19 | and around the tree. The dead man liked it \ | ||
| 20 | because he liked to pretend that the rabbit \ | ||
| 21 | was running from a fox, and the rabbit \ | ||
| 22 | always ended up safe, back in his hole. | ||
| 23 | |||
| 24 | [hearts]: 98-words-meaning.html | ||
| 25 | [they spin]: 28-moongone.html | ||
| 26 | [knot while mating]: 34-spittle.html | ||