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She felt ashamed and confused, as if she were surrounded by tiny dead fragments of her body.
I guess once you’re prepared it won’t be so bad. Like, things probably won’t be that different.
A wedding dress that stretched off in every direction to cover the whole world
her face the ceiling and his face the floor she the sky and he the ground beneath her
And she thought she would burn up into cinders for love of him
For its arms to rise for it to step free of its hanger Dance around the little room in his invisible arms And then for her to wake and find herself once more in his life with her on their way to their wedding so happy
A hundred years had passed She had woken in a field in the dawn Going doing All that was finished
He thinks again how being up above it all the time, you never really get a feel for how much ground there is in the ground, how much earth there is to the earth, what it takes for us to have something to walk on.
We don’t have to ever touch again. Or speak, we don’t ever need to speak if you don’t want to. Just be near, be near me.
Maybe every era has an atrocity woven into its fabric. Maybe every society is complicit in terrible things and only afterwards gets around to pretending they didn’t know. When the kids ask, tell them that no one meant any harm.
