the hybridity backfires
"The Hybridity Backfires," June 26, 2022 (#177)
original title
Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson (1998)
Orange World and Other Stories by Karen Russell (2019)
The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers (2012)
The Green Road by Anne Enright (2015)
The Blue Star by Tony Earley (2008)
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2003)
The Hybridity Backfires
You idiot a cage isn't a weapon. It has to do something to be
tangled around her, but not what she held in her mind
through the red curtains of a building near the outskirts of
tipped like crazy, and all the men made passes, never mind the
roof had rusted to the red color of the muddy drive. The
kitchen was airy, with the windows always open
to pass an examination to get into the electricians'
performing salubrious bloodlettings, assisting the
voices calling out, “Three o’clock, fucking three o’clock!” and
a shelf for the radio and for bills, and above that, a clock
tiptoed up and down as if they were in some kind of temple
since the last miscarriage almost six years ago. I could not.
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