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Paraplegic
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He placed a pinch of snow on his tongue and thought of making snow ice cream with Frank and their mother when they were small boys - 'First you stir in the vanilla' - Frank standing on a stool on his wondrously functional pre-Libya legs, the bullet that would sever his spinal cord still twenty-five years away but already approaching: a woman giving birth to a child who will someday pull the trigger on a gun, a designer sketching the weapon or its precursor, a dictator making a decision that will
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― Station Eleven
― Station Eleven
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a rose for empathy
can my own beauty reflect off glass
again the pain subsides like matted walls
like hospital halls like gas and pills and sass
never can I dance in balls or prance through malls
my pelvic gird’ survives tacked back intact
i sigh relieved my paralysis stops
there died before my eyes the drunk in fact
who crashed and thrashed and mashed in flee of cops
by grace i stay a higher vertebrate
in this ordered peck of vine and line still mine
my skin and brain remain not celibate
tho
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A legend of a paraplegic prince, a novel of epic fantasy, a legend of legends. A legend that wil…more
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