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title: About the author
subtitle: (not pictured)
genre: prose
epigraph:
content: The body that surrounds him is his, but his insides are not.
project:
title: Stark Raving
css: stark
order: 19
prev:
- title: |
Something about all music being performances of _4\'33\"_
in places where other bands happen to be playing
link: music-433
- title: Riptide of memory
link: riptide_memory
...
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[He was born][] on a few separate occasions _[green traffic lights][] at night_
There was the day of his conception \ _[a TV in front of a dumpster][]_
a wintery affair saved for those involved
The day he wriggled forth \
from the dark tunnel of nothing \ _surprise photo of you at Walgreen's_
[his mother's womb][]
The founding of his little city \
deep inside by the small builders \ _a [pink dress in the alley][] behind your house_
alien as they were and still \
somehow intimately familiar
Like any city it had its ups \
and downs the fever of 1994 \ _me buying a Reese's peanut butter cup for a child_ \
was especially devastating \ _[whose family couldn't afford it]_ \
but they were a hardy folk \ _[in front of me in line at Safeway][]_
not much given to flight
As all things must pass the \
little city began slowly to decay \ _trees at night their skeletons_ \
the [old ones claimed the young][] \ _revealed by a camera flash_
had no respect for culture anymore
They began to die off slowly \
more quickly than being born \ _[two earthworms on pavement after a rain][]_
the end was coming closer
As the [last breath][] was made \
the last accounts closed in the city _keys tacked to a sign in Buffalo Park_
It was given over to other builders _man flipping a [four-wheeler][] and walking it off_
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[two earthworms on pavement after a rain]: the-sea_the-beach.html
[He was born]: sixteenth-chapel.html
[a TV in front of a dumpster]: options.html
[his mother's womb]: death-zone.html
[green traffic lights]: stayed-on-the-bus.html
[pink dress in the alley]: in-bed.html
[in front of me in line at Safeway]: last-bastion.html
[old ones claimed the young]: creation-myth.html
[last breath]: last-passenger.html
[four-wheeler]: deadman.html
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