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  • My Favorite Brunette
  • Tracy K. Smith (bio)

Today, the canker in your side is not content to sit and wait, refuses the good food I have brought for you on a tray. Your eyes are yellow with it, and tired. You shut them against light and the day and the fuss I am making. Be still, you tell me. Let’s just watch this silly picture to the end. I am angry at Romantic Comedy for making things seem easy. I am angry at myself for thinking Bob Hope was ever in jeopardy. You smile to say it is funny. It is, isn’t it, to be so earnest, so foolhardy?

Tracy K. Smith

Tracy K. Smith is a graduate of Harvard College and Columbia University. Her work has appeared in Boulevard. She is currently a Wallace E. Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.

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