A sentence is not always a consequence waiting to happen. The edges of the park were yellow-taped from the public. When the first man landed on the moon I only wanted to go home. No one listens to the radio after the hurricane makes landfall. I dreamt that the walls were papered with ripped bougainvillea blossoms. Someone must have said the safest place was the center of the house. I finished school a hundred years before you laid the first stone of your academy. With patience, anyone can gather enough melted wax to shape into a ball. The hours are longest when you can't understand the love-cries of crickets. Fingers learn the way in the dark. With only one pail of water, you learn to wet your hair sparingly and soap down just once. I know how to use up a thing to make it stronger when it is gone. You didn't take away my job, you only took away one of my disguises. What you don't see you will never see.
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