It’s too hot in here, I’m too removed from who I was. How did the settlers do it, pushing past sweat to build walls, and how long did they live, after all? I’m coming up on a special year, probably decades past what they saw, and have a rich sense of living these final days.
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Youth sits hiding at the back of the room while the lesson is going on, festering in complacency a fly buzzes listlessly while two girls write an erotic reinterpretation of the scene, batting an absence of lashes at each other, faces curled in smiles sneaking in a baseball, the youth sits, meticulously unstitching it, half-listening…
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