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| 1 | --- | ||
| 2 | title: About the author | ||
| 3 | subtitle: (not pictured) | ||
| 4 | genre: prose | ||
| 5 | |||
| 6 | epigraph: | ||
| 7 | content: The body that surrounds him is his, but his insides are not. | ||
| 8 | |||
| 9 | project: | ||
| 10 | title: Stark Raving | ||
| 11 | css: stark | ||
| 12 | order: 19 | ||
| 13 | prev: | ||
| 14 | - title: | ||
| 15 | Something about all music being performances of 4'33" | ||
| 16 | in places where other bands happen to be playing | ||
| 17 | link: music-433 | ||
| 18 | - title: Riptide of memory | ||
| 19 | link: riptide_memory | ||
| 20 | ... | ||
| 21 | |||
| 22 | ------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- | ||
| 23 | He was born on a few separate occasions _green traffic ligts at night_ | ||
| 24 | |||
| 25 | There was the day of his conception \ _a TV in front of a dumpster_ | ||
| 26 | a wintery affair saved for those involved | ||
| 27 | |||
| 28 | The day he wriggled forth \ | ||
| 29 | from the dark tunnel of nothing \ _surprise photo of you at Walgreen's_ | ||
| 30 | his mother's womb | ||
| 31 | |||
| 32 | The founding of his little city \ | ||
| 33 | deep inside by the smal builders \ _a pink dress in the alley behind your house_ | ||
| 34 | alien as they were and still \ | ||
| 35 | somehow intimately familiar | ||
| 36 | |||
| 37 | Like any city it had its ups \ | ||
| 38 | and downs the fever of 1994 \ _me buying a Reese's peanut butter cup for a child_ \ | ||
| 39 | was especially devastating \ _[whose family couldn't afford it]_ \ | ||
| 40 | but they were a hardy folk \ _in front of me in line at Safeway_ | ||
| 41 | not much given to flight | ||
| 42 | |||
| 43 | As all things must pass the \ | ||
| 44 | little city began slowly to decay \ _trees at night their skeletons_ \ | ||
| 45 | the old ones claimed the young \ _revealed by a camera flash_ | ||
| 46 | had no respect for culture anymore | ||
| 47 | |||
| 48 | They began to die off slowly \ | ||
| 49 | more quickly than being born \ _two earthworms on pavement after a rain_ | ||
| 50 | the end was coming closer | ||
| 51 | |||
| 52 | As the last breath was made \ | ||
| 53 | the last accounts closed in the city _keys tacked to a sign in Buffalo Park_ | ||
| 54 | |||
| 55 | It was given over to other builders _man flipping a four-wheeler and walking it off_ | ||
| 56 | |||
| 57 | ------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- | ||