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Maybe that’s why I agreed to get out of bed at 3am and drive fifteen miles to San Clemente, to see if the shreds of my love for you were suspended from the enormous Carrow’s sign like tattered remnants of a hawk’s kill.
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At the time I was selling swimsuits for an athletic store in Golders Green and making sure the middle-aged Jewish ladies had enough coverage for their fast weekends in Puerto Banus or Villefranche-sur-Mer.
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Perhaps it was my painted, fleshy body they baulked at, or even my struggles with the bottle; the long nights passed out nasty drunk on the sofa, the children in bed, the fire smoldering, the television on mute.
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Hounds at the horse’s feet, sniffing air and ground for a trace of the prey; fox, was it?
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How the tables turn when I enter the horse latitudes of my life and wonder about you at my age.
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All year long he had an expired calendar on the wall—Bridgestone Tires, 1996—and the same leopard-skin clad model posed over a Formula One racing car, a sudsy sponge in her hand and a flashing smile on her face.
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Torn paper, an insulting note from a nurse he’d given the eye to as he scrubbed up for a routine appendectomy.
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the priest wipes kidney stains from his chin and pulls an extra pair of socks on
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young tourists from Latvia or Estonia take selfies and mug for the camera
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These huddled souls could be a cult of fairytale scholars exiled to the area by unseasonal floods in Belarus...
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A red-faced man with a walkie-talkie rushes to her side and speaks into the microphone, summoning aid,
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My father fell midst wax and sticks into the rubble of our family woes.
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They all talk in clichés, reading off three by five cards.
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A spasm rippled across your face as the dropping sun emphasized your bloodshot eyes. “More fool me,” you said, propping me back in the now upright pram and pushing it along towards the church gate.
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"What you need is a miracle, yes?"
I say, what I need is a few Demerol and a handful of Valium.
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