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| 2 | title: We played those games too | ||
| 3 | id: weplayedthosegamestoo | ||
| 4 | genre: verse | ||
| 5 | |||
| 6 | project: | ||
| 7 | title: Elegies for alternate selves | ||
| 8 | class: elegies | ||
| 9 | order: 25 | ||
| 10 | prev: | ||
| 11 | - title: Telemarketer | ||
| 12 | link: telemarketer | ||
| 13 | next: | ||
| 14 | - title: 'To Daniel: an elaboration' | ||
| 15 | link: todaniel | ||
| 16 | ... | ||
| 17 | |||
| 18 | I saw two Eskimo girls playing a game \ | ||
| 19 | blowing on each other's' vocal chords to make music \ | ||
| 20 | on the tundra. I thought about how \ | ||
| 21 | once we played the same game \ | ||
| 22 | and the sounds blowing over the chords of our throats \ | ||
| 23 | was the same as a wind over frozen prairie. \ | ||
| 24 | We are the Eskimo girls who played \ | ||
| 25 | the game that night to keep ourselves warm. \ | ||
| 26 | I run my hands over [my daughter][]'s \ | ||
| 27 | voicebox as she hums a song \ | ||
| 28 | about a seal and about killing the seal and about \ | ||
| 29 | skinning it and rendering the blubber \ | ||
| 30 | into clear oil to light lamps. \ | ||
| 31 | I remember you are my lamp. She remembers \ | ||
| 32 | you although you left before she arrived. \ | ||
| 33 | I can never tell her about you. \ | ||
| 34 | I will never be able to express that taste of your oil \ | ||
| 35 | as we [pushed our throats together][spittle]. \ | ||
| 36 | I will never be able to say how \ | ||
| 37 | we share this blemish like conjoined twins. \ | ||
| 38 | I will fail you always to remember you. | ||
| 39 | |||
| 40 | [my daughter]: and.html | ||
| 41 | [spittle]: spittle.html | ||