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We Are Not Like Other People& Do Not Need Them
- Red Hen Press
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25 We Are Not Like Other People & Do Not Need Them The danger in living is why we file our nails instead of our wrists; why we label things away. Why when we think of mass transit we think of concentration camps, we think of people packed like oysters in the little shells we’re allowed, the brine & hope of forgiveness like fortified shorelines or western ideas of what it means to be forsaken. I often think of your dark beauty, waves a forbidden song against the planks of a pier no one thinks about: the face in the yearbook, the scuttled boat & its peer, the sigh announcing him/her. Blinded we reach for the insouciant moon to pull it back. The whole thing can go off course but memory is bold. We hold on for dear life & row. ...