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… light laptop light graphic light leaking liquid crystals frosted red-green-blue chromatics throbbing until I … I masturbate then pray to God after the shame-hate-spiral comes like a call I deny I send the voicemail to my chest … to find unmitigated pleasure like when I fly I fear I will die every time and my therapist tells me to accept this …
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… will bear in the red air. They don’t. Before the snail dies (and it dies in “One Mississippi”) the peaches liquefy, the grapes, … We paint it anyway, going slow to compensate for our ridiculous gloves, stiff necks, the dim …
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… a well of fears? No ordinary rule applies because you’ve died already, died and died, as fresh annointings—salt, baptismal rain— become the ritual made new by moving on and moving through. …
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… stars, My dear love.” “You and I, my dear love, Shall never die, never die,” “Not again, my dear love. Lie on your back and hark …
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Scenes From a Documentary History of Mississippi 1. King Cotton, 1907 From every corner of the photograph, flags wave down the main street in Vicksburg. Stacked to form an arch, the great bales of cotton rise up from the ground like a giant swell, a …