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The Golden Gift

When I was younger, my dad would point at his belly and say“This is your future, just wait.”And I’d say no, I’m not like you,not in that regard—and I’d remember his malaise, his sorrows,the thick, cracking skin on his heels … Continue reading

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Doubt and the Butcher

Lay me to the bone, oh Lord, and vivisect me whole, should you exist. Cut through these layers of monotony, this sense of ought and should and duty, and let me know there lies, beneath the flesh, some metaphysics I … Continue reading

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