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My Normal Heart
This sounds narcissistic, but every few months, when I have a quiet moment, I like to take out my electrocardiogram and look at it. Oh, it is entirely normal, and maybe that is the point. I marvel at the tall narrow QRS complexes marching regularly across the page at 66 beats per minute, each followed... Continue Reading →
State Worker Catches Himself in a Lie, Then Realizes Truth is Far More Interesting
https://youtu.be/6Ap7AQC5q0s It seems I've always been the praying sort,If prayer is weeping along with FM songsUpon the lonely road. That human heartWill break in slow 4/4; the rights, the wrongsOf childish lyrics; mélange of minor chords.And all those setting suns I've spoken toIntoning grace. Amen. Muttered wordsThat disappeared like smoke into the blue.And birds, blossoms,... Continue Reading →
Three Strings
After that kid shot me in the face outside Club Twelve, after the team of surgeons took an hour to dig that tiny resin ball out of the soft tissue in my cheek, after my mom cried in the hospital room when she saw the size of my swollen head—after all that happened, I tried... Continue Reading →
Feeding the Fish
The lone algae eater, who somehowsurvives our neglect, hides inside a castle.When I tap the glass to see if he’sstill alive, I think about my little brother,who spends twenty-three hours a dayconfined to a 6 by 8 cell. When I openthe top and sprinkle in food, the fishrises up through the murky water to eat.Visiting... Continue Reading →