Didn't people die every day that you did whatever it was that you did before the day that you died? All while the uncomfortable truth emerged and whispered that you made no good goddamn difference, while the others stress to burnish into new time the lie that says that even that has got to stand good for something, even if, in truth, it was good for absolutely nothing.
Saturday, June 28, 2025
darwinian doll parts
the boy got serial glimpses of his mother's perfect doll parts, highlighted by tan lines and animated by her movements. He saw it all and it stayed inside the brain inside the space behind his eyes such that, for the balance of his long life, he would measure all subsequent doll parts against those days when she ran around the house, perfectly naked. It would ruin his ability to bond for the rest of his long life.
