title we played those games too id weplayedthosegamestoo genre verse project title elegies for alternate selves class elegies order 25 prev title telemarketer link telemarketer next title to daniel an elaboration link todaniel i saw two eskimo girls playing a game blowing on each other's vocal chords to make music on the tundra i thought about how once we played the same game and the sounds blowing over the chords of our throats was the same as a wind over frozen prairie we are the eskimo girls who played the game that night to keep ourselves warm i run my hands over my daughter s voicebox as she hums a song about a seal and about killing the seal and about skinning it and rendering the blubber into clear oil to light lamps i remember you are my lamp she remembers you although you left before she arrived i can never tell her about you i will never be able to express that taste of your oil as we pushed our throats together spittle i will never be able to say how we share this blemish like conjoined twins i will fail you always to remember you my daughter and html spittle spittle html