

The FaintI was at the pub the other day, just by myself.The Faint
Alone.
Football was on the television above the bar but I was only watching it. No sound. I heard this crow cawing outside and I started to cry because my bird died last week and he was the only one who would talk to me. I gave him ice cream sometimes and he really seemed to like it. I remember when I first bought him a mirror and he would look at himself and think it was someone else, so he kept attacking it and attacking it, and attacking it until he was bleeding all over and feathers flew out of his cage.
Maybe he never realized it was just his reflection. Maybe he


InevitablilityThe sun, which reflects from a windshield of a car a thousand miles awayInevitablility
reflects on the crack
that settles itself right
in the center of the white paint-speckled glass on my window and into
my eyes so quickly and fiercely that I think it’s lightning but it stays there, when I look to see, in my eyes, even when I try to blink it away. Even when I squint.
Which One?
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Die. Dead yet? Good.
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Die. Dead yet? Good.
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