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| 1 | --- | ||
| 2 | title: About the author | ||
| 3 | id: about-the-author | ||
| 4 | subtitle: (not pictured) | ||
| 5 | genre: prose | ||
| 6 | |||
| 7 | epigraph: | ||
| 8 | content: The body that surrounds him is his, but his insides are not. | ||
| 9 | |||
| 10 | project: | ||
| 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 | |||
| 21 | ----------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ | ||
| 22 | [He was born][] on a few separate occasions _[green traffic lights][] at night_ | ||
| 23 | |||
| 24 | There was the day of his conception \ _[a TV in front of a dumpster][]_ | ||
| 25 | a wintery affair saved for those involved | ||
| 26 | |||
| 27 | The day he wriggled forth \ | ||
| 28 | from the dark tunnel of nothing \ _surprise photo of you at Walgreen's_ | ||
| 29 | [his mother's womb][] | ||
| 30 | |||
| 31 | The founding of his little city \ | ||
| 32 | deep inside by the small builders \ _a [pink dress in the alley][] behind your house_ | ||
| 33 | alien as they were and still \ | ||
| 34 | somehow intimately familiar | ||
| 35 | |||
| 36 | Like any city it had its ups \ | ||
| 37 | and downs the fever of 1994 \ _me buying a Reese's peanut butter cup for a child_ \ | ||
| 38 | was especially devastating \ _[whose family couldn't afford it]_ \ | ||
| 39 | but they were a hardy folk \ _[in front of me in line at Safeway][]_ | ||
| 40 | not much given to flight | ||
| 41 | |||
| 42 | As all things must pass the \ | ||
| 43 | little city began slowly to decay \ _trees at night their skeletons_ \ | ||
| 44 | the [old ones claimed the young][] \ _revealed by a camera flash_ | ||
| 45 | had no respect for culture anymore | ||
| 46 | |||
| 47 | They began to die off slowly \ | ||
| 48 | more quickly than being born \ _[two earthworms on pavement after a rain][]_ | ||
| 49 | the end was coming closer | ||
| 50 | |||
| 51 | As the [last breath][] was made \ | ||
| 52 | the last accounts closed in the city _keys tacked to a sign in Buffalo Park_ | ||
| 53 | |||
| 54 | It 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 | ||