to be like a teenager again
i just remembered this one time where Laurie and Jay and i, late at night, found ourselves in some ugly back parking lot in Puyallup. pissed off at the way all three of us were openly ruining our lives under the unhappy watch of our friends and family-- we stared, stood, smashing glass. i don't remember all of the details-- but i can see in my
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Your writing is, of course, impeccable. Your venom is sweating out of you. The period you describe is one of which I only caught the occasional eyeful, as preoccupied as I was with school and Gary and India and my stupid crush on Jace-Pace. How silly was I? Here you were tackling the misery of the world and realizing who you were in the process and I was listening to Roxette and eating at Taco Bell. Hehe.
Yes, we are definitely going to do a lot this summer, before you fly off to New Mexico to begin the rest of your life. I will be sad to lose (geographically speaking) one of the most important people in this crazy life I lead. The throbbing center, the ultimate reference, the barometer of all that is hot. From whom will I get a second opinion, the best hugs, the honest stares, the acidic assessments? More importantly, hello, Cher! I totally admire your decision and wish you all the best. Unleash your magic on the renegade Southwest (and please take a Mexican lover if you haven't before). That said, the Northwest will have ( ... )
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Doe eat the earth, it is no more at all;
Ne is the earth the lesse, or loseth ought.
For whatsoever from one place doth fall
Is with the tide unto another brought
For there is nothing lost which may be found if sought.
Edmund Spenser, from Faerie Queen
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