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2title: About the author
3id: about-the-author
4subtitle: (not pictured)
5genre: prose
6
7epigraph:
8 content: The body that surrounds him is his, but his insides are not.
9
10project:
11 title: Stark Raving
12 class: stark
13 order: 19
14 prev:
15 - title: Something about all music being performances of _4′33″_ in places where other bands happen to be playing
16 link: music-433
17 - title: Riptide of memory
18 link: riptide_memory
19...
20
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22[He was born][] on a few separate occasions _[green traffic lights][] at night_
23
24There was the day of his conception \ _[a TV in front of a dumpster][]_
25a wintery affair saved for those involved
26
27The day he wriggled forth \
28from the dark tunnel of nothing \ _surprise photo of you at Walgreen's_
29[his mother's womb][]
30
31The founding of his little city \
32deep inside by the small builders \ _a [pink dress in the alley][] behind your house_
33alien as they were and still \
34somehow intimately familiar
35
36Like any city it had its ups \
37and downs the fever of 1994 \ _me buying a Reese's peanut butter cup for a child_ \
38was especially devastating \ _[whose family couldn't afford it]_ \
39but they were a hardy folk \ _[in front of me in line at Safeway][]_
40not much given to flight
41
42As all things must pass the \
43little city began slowly to decay \ _trees at night their skeletons_ \
44the [old ones claimed the young][] \ _revealed by a camera flash_
45had no respect for culture anymore
46
47They began to die off slowly \
48more quickly than being born \ _[two earthworms on pavement after a rain][]_
49the end was coming closer
50
51As the [last breath][] was made \
52the last accounts closed in the city _keys tacked to a sign in Buffalo Park_
53
54It was given over to other builders _man flipping a [four-wheeler][] and walking it off_
55
56----------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------
57
58[two earthworms on pavement after a rain]: the-sea_the-beach.html
59[He was born]: sixteenth-chapel.html
60[a TV in front of a dumpster]: options.html
61[his mother's womb]: death-zone.html
62[green traffic lights]: stayed-on-the-bus.html
63[pink dress in the alley]: in-bed.html
64[in front of me in line at Safeway]: last-bastion.html
65[old ones claimed the young]: creation-myth.html
66[last breath]: last-passenger.html
67[four-wheeler]: deadman.html