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Languedoc
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97 Languedoc Who can I ask to help me disappear? I’m not hoping to slip into a stranger’s heavy memories but to submerge backward into the tender womb of innocence not because I am afraid not because I am weary not because anything was ever better Nothing was better. But to make an escape down any path I once traveled— past white stone walls of churches and ruins— the shallow warm river 98 glinting in June sunlight in Languedoc chestnuts fallen from roadside groves. Not to be young forever— But rather to travel as a mollusk, a barnacle a subatomic particle, to become nothing more than the passage of time itself— an eternal witness to every small death that happens not when we die but when we stay alive. [44.193.80.126] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 12:51 GMT) ...