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...the swing goes with it.

this one, remembered

The face – his face – looked familiar, familial.

lost to an un-becoming

Let there be light, and there was light.  And that is when creation stopped in the Ia Drang.  There, it was only chaos and light.  Except for the nights.  Then, it slipped back into the dark and then all was chaos.

benighted gambler of man’s needs (or Plato’s allegory of the cave)

...of course, there was no one to hear him say this.

this man is a mountain (or the egocentricist of Piaget’s three-mountain problem)

mrs. weissman... teeth... congealed beef. darkness. no dreams.

oeuvre (what hides inside the body)

And there you are: outside the window.  Outside, looking in.  Outside, leaning against the naked tree.

cautionary tale (or the dead always writhe with ecstasy)

And then you got in your car, rumbled over the curb, and there I was: in your headlights.

similarities for samhain

One thing, not quite the same as the other, regardless tends toward that other.

a thousand never enough

The world does not know me, he repeated.  The world does not know me, he said again and mostly to his nearly-full glass of wine.

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