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Something New
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47 S o m e t h i n g N e w You have to want the induction of marriage with its lot of glue along with its half-death, helmets with initials carved in, persnickety daughters demanding liberal nods, half-baked urbaniacs living on Main and Third disposed to codependent students who jam the worn-through study to ask how to proportion language beyond light, mortgages dangling your bit of check balance out to dry. You have to want to cry in Kansas, that dark theater, and worry with the pills your health would find: descending a staircase to a spouse with wild hair and drops of spit on his/her hairshirt, the garden pecked over by birds. You’d have to want it because there’s another place where it’s air-conditioned and dark and upholstered and slattern and lush and devout, a place of libidinous blackout. You’d have to really want it. ...