unique in my time
"Unique in My Time," June 10, 2022 (#161)
title from Old School by Tobias Wolff (2003)
The Oldest Living Confederate Tells All by Allan Gurganus (1989)
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (1952)
Old Filth by Jane Gardham (2004)
Old (2021)
Old Yeller by Fred Gipson (1956)
Unique in My Time
When electricity came in later, a natural first
boy had brought them in a two-decker metal container from
cats and bees and the world, all gone mad. I tell you
you’re always thinking about the past. You work in
my chest like a catfish in a wet sack. I could feel
a creak and stiffening. Faces, still smiling, guessing
the sack that covered the bait box and spread it in the sun
were for the bourgeoisie. Sex had never been a great
need to catch my breath. I just started feeling weird a minute
before he got his brains beat out. Then he rode back
to make it fun. Look at everything we've done here just to
strain to breaking point and raising it to breaking point again
to know about my father. If you can find out somehow,
set teeth into it and try to shake it and hang on
and don’t ask any questions. Now, go! Hide! Go!
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