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23 | <h1 class="title">About the author</h1> | ||
24 | <h1 class="subtitle">(not pictured)</h1> | ||
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26 | <p class="epigraph"> | ||
27 | The body that surrounds him is his, but his insides are not. | ||
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35 | <td style="text-align: left;"><a href="sixteenth-chapel.html">He was born</a> on a few separate occasions</td> | ||
36 | <td style="text-align: right;"><em><a href="stayed-on-the-bus.html">green traffic lights</a> at night</em></td> | ||
37 | </tr> | ||
38 | <tr class="even"> | ||
39 | <td style="text-align: left;">There was the day of his conception<br />a wintery affair saved for those involved</td> | ||
40 | <td style="text-align: right;"><em><a href="options.html">a TV in front of a dumpster</a></em></td> | ||
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42 | <tr class="odd"> | ||
43 | <td style="text-align: left;">The day he wriggled forth<br />from the dark tunnel of nothing<br /><a href="death-zone.html">his mother’s womb</a></td> | ||
44 | <td style="text-align: right;"><em>surprise photo of you at Walgreen’s</em></td> | ||
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47 | <td style="text-align: left;">The founding of his little city<br />deep inside by the small builders<br />alien as they were and still<br />somehow intimately familiar</td> | ||
48 | <td style="text-align: right;"><em>a <a href="in-bed.html">pink dress in the alley</a> behind your house</em></td> | ||
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51 | <td style="text-align: left;">Like any city it had its ups<br />and downs the fever of 1994<br />was especially devastating<br />but they were a hardy folk<br />not much given to flight</td> | ||
52 | <td style="text-align: right;"><em>me buying a Reese’s peanut butter cup for a child</em><br /><em>[whose family couldn’t afford it]</em><br /><em><a href="last-bastion.html">in front of me in line at Safeway</a></em></td> | ||
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55 | <td style="text-align: left;">As all things must pass the<br />little city began slowly to decay<br />the <a href="creation-myth.html">old ones claimed the young</a><br />had no respect for culture anymore</td> | ||
56 | <td style="text-align: right;"><em>trees at night their skeletons</em><br /><em>revealed by a camera flash</em></td> | ||
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59 | <td style="text-align: left;">They began to die off slowly<br />more quickly than being born<br />the end was coming closer</td> | ||
60 | <td style="text-align: right;"><em><a href="the-sea_the-beach.html">two earthworms on pavement after a rain</a></em></td> | ||
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63 | <td style="text-align: left;">As the <a href="last-passenger.html">last breath</a> was made<br />the last accounts closed in the city</td> | ||
64 | <td style="text-align: right;"><em>keys tacked to a sign in Buffalo Park</em></td> | ||
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67 | <td style="text-align: left;">It was given over to other builders</td> | ||
68 | <td style="text-align: right;"><em>man flipping a <a href="deadman.html">four-wheeler</a> and walking it off</em></td> | ||
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76 | <span class="prevlink">< <p>Something about all music being performances of <em>4'33"</em> in places where other bands happen to be playing</p></span> | ||
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79 | <span class="prevlink">< Riptide of memory</span> | ||
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