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… An Address with Exclamation Points I accused History of gluttony; Happiness of anorexia! … An Address with Exclamation Points …

… The Week Before She Died I dream us young, again, mother and daughter back on … covert behind his almond eyes. With three regal strides he commands our gaze, pronounces the red brocade robe his, … The Week Before She Died …

… when I was feverish in a hotel. That time I cried a lot but also wasn’t thinking very straight. This time I’m thinking … love. So I’d seen her both really in love and grieving. The combination of these things I thought made us maybe … when it was over, she’d just wish to be waiting again. He died and she was right.              The pages of mourning …

… Big Bird Died for Your Sins   Barry was six-foot-six, fifteen like … dreaming drunk.  A crowd kept vigil on the beach. His compañero the catcher dove and dove again between the fins … from a cooler, I said: When my father told me Clemente died, there were tears in his eyes.   No one said anything, …

… “I Have Decided Not to Die” Armenian Golgotha, by Grigoris Balakian. Knopf, March … (a celibate priest) and scholar, was one of 250 intellectuals, writers, teachers, politicians, and prominent Armenians … deliberate and bureaucratically directed, the prototypical components of what Churchill would later call “a crime …