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54 What News on Monday when theaters are dark and the world smolders from weekend fires—what news then when news travels fast on an atomic clock of ordinal and cardinal numbers and emotions clog the brain what news when your rotation comes through and you already have trouble with the sitter and your husband deployed months ago what news comes without the smells the odors of sex, wars without the stench of death, the salt of work untasted the stuff that comes quickly like childbirth in the movies where the heroine awakens make-up unmussed what news comes before you get the diapers on the line before your uniforms fill your duffel bags one more time and the family arrives to wish you well and you kiss the baby one last time looking over your shoulder as the news comes in quick more at six and eleven the sound bytes loud enough for indigestion 55 what news hastily scrawled across a scrim of pretending pages papyrus of a digital age and you glimpse a face like yours that fits the national average of casualties lost out there where sky and ground suck out all the light and a break in the clouds looks like the eye of God [18.188.158.92] Project MUSE (2024-04-20 15:02 GMT) ...

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