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