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1 | about | ||
2 | the | ||
3 | author | ||
4 | not | ||
5 | pictured | ||
6 | he | ||
7 | was | ||
8 | born | ||
9 | on | ||
10 | a | ||
11 | few | ||
12 | separate | ||
13 | occasions | ||
14 | green | ||
15 | traffic | ||
16 | lights | ||
17 | at | ||
18 | night | ||
19 | there | ||
20 | was | ||
21 | the | ||
22 | day | ||
23 | of | ||
24 | his | ||
25 | conception | ||
26 | a | ||
27 | wintery | ||
28 | affair | ||
29 | saved | ||
30 | for | ||
31 | those | ||
32 | involved | ||
33 | a | ||
34 | tv | ||
35 | in | ||
36 | front | ||
37 | of | ||
38 | a | ||
39 | dumpster | ||
40 | the | ||
41 | day | ||
42 | he | ||
43 | wriggled | ||
44 | forth | ||
45 | from | ||
46 | the | ||
47 | dark | ||
48 | tunnel | ||
49 | of | ||
50 | nothing | ||
51 | his | ||
52 | mother's | ||
53 | womb | ||
54 | surprise | ||
55 | photo | ||
56 | of | ||
57 | you | ||
58 | at | ||
59 | walgreen's | ||
60 | the | ||
61 | founding | ||
62 | of | ||
63 | his | ||
64 | little | ||
65 | city | ||
66 | deep | ||
67 | inside | ||
68 | by | ||
69 | the | ||
70 | small | ||
71 | builders | ||
72 | alien | ||
73 | as | ||
74 | they | ||
75 | were | ||
76 | and | ||
77 | still | ||
78 | somehow | ||
79 | intimately | ||
80 | familiar | ||
81 | a | ||
82 | pink | ||
83 | dress | ||
84 | in | ||
85 | the | ||
86 | alley | ||
87 | behind | ||
88 | your | ||
89 | house | ||
90 | like | ||
91 | any | ||
92 | city | ||
93 | it | ||
94 | had | ||
95 | its | ||
96 | ups | ||
97 | and | ||
98 | downs | ||
99 | the | ||
100 | fever | ||
101 | of | ||
102 | 1994 | ||
103 | was | ||
104 | especially | ||
105 | devastating | ||
106 | but | ||
107 | they | ||
108 | were | ||
109 | a | ||
110 | hardy | ||
111 | folk | ||
112 | not | ||
113 | much | ||
114 | given | ||
115 | to | ||
116 | flight | ||
117 | me | ||
118 | buying | ||
119 | a | ||
120 | reese's | ||
121 | peanut | ||
122 | butter | ||
123 | cup | ||
124 | for | ||
125 | a | ||
126 | child | ||
127 | whose | ||
128 | family | ||
129 | couldn't | ||
130 | afford | ||
131 | it | ||
132 | in | ||
133 | front | ||
134 | of | ||
135 | me | ||
136 | in | ||
137 | line | ||
138 | at | ||
139 | safeway | ||
140 | as | ||
141 | all | ||
142 | things | ||
143 | must | ||
144 | pass | ||
145 | the | ||
146 | little | ||
147 | city | ||
148 | began | ||
149 | slowly | ||
150 | to | ||
151 | decay | ||
152 | the | ||
153 | old | ||
154 | ones | ||
155 | claimed | ||
156 | the | ||
157 | young | ||
158 | had | ||
159 | no | ||
160 | respect | ||
161 | for | ||
162 | culture | ||
163 | anymore | ||
164 | trees | ||
165 | at | ||
166 | night | ||
167 | their | ||
168 | skeletons | ||
169 | revealed | ||
170 | by | ||
171 | a | ||
172 | camera | ||
173 | flash | ||
174 | they | ||
175 | began | ||
176 | to | ||
177 | die | ||
178 | off | ||
179 | slowly | ||
180 | more | ||
181 | quickly | ||
182 | than | ||
183 | being | ||
184 | born | ||
185 | the | ||
186 | end | ||
187 | was | ||
188 | coming | ||
189 | closer | ||
190 | two | ||
191 | earthworms | ||
192 | on | ||
193 | pavement | ||
194 | after | ||
195 | a | ||
196 | rain | ||
197 | as | ||
198 | the | ||
199 | last | ||
200 | breath | ||
201 | was | ||
202 | made | ||
203 | the | ||
204 | last | ||
205 | accounts | ||
206 | closed | ||
207 | in | ||
208 | the | ||
209 | city | ||
210 | keys | ||
211 | tacked | ||
212 | to | ||
213 | a | ||
214 | sign | ||
215 | in | ||
216 | buffalo | ||
217 | park | ||
218 | it | ||
219 | was | ||
220 | given | ||
221 | over | ||
222 | to | ||
223 | other | ||
224 | builders | ||
225 | man | ||
226 | flipping | ||
227 | a | ||
228 | four-wheeler | ||
229 | and | ||
230 | walking | ||
231 | it | ||
232 | off | ||