Finished Folds (321—326)
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4Each violent instant was worse than the last. The rug reddened and the animals fled. This is not an exit: the shapes that make me block the
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1I found that naming them after minor characters in old mobster movies lessened the learning curve, but the neighbors didn't appreciate my failures. "Legs, you son of a bitch," I'd
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2the magnitude of his prayers, and the hidden dark angels who would answer them. Their original sin they carry invisibly on their sleeves, and they must pay
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1slept in the corner, and considered the potential of walking into the mist, beyond the bait boxes and littered decks of his punishment. Balance, he thought, balance is
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2that the fates were ahead of him, breaking all directions and snuffing suns. The solitary darkness expanded outside and in. Perhaps, he thought, the irony could bring him
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2pun everything he said last Tuesday. Red lights are where we get into trouble, and I've taken to the back streets. Home after home we pass, none of which appear