What Remains True

by Janis Thomas

I almost want to tell him to look at me because I’m his kid and I’m here even if Jonah isn’t and that I wish Jonah would come back, too, but he’s not coming back and so he and my mom are going to have to start looking at the kid they have left, because if they don’t I’m afraid I’m gonna just disappear.

He was a beautiful bum. He looked like Brad Pitt, and he was affable and funny and as ambitious as a sloth.

Life itself is a series of losses, is it not? In this world, happiness and fulfillment are products of successfully dealing with our losses.