with the crass recklessness
"With the Crass Recklessness," August 18, 2022 (#230)
title from "Human Blues and Reproductive Self-Determination" by Kaitlyn Teer (2022)
The Visiting Privilege by Joy Williams (2015)
The Privileges by Jonathan Dee (2010)
penultimate line from A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (2011)
With the Crass Recklessness
She was surrounded by strangers saying crazy things. Even her
theory he could have taken a leave of absence and gone back to
taking up space, so strange and shining and full of rot,
was still missing and she’d just walk into his room and
a swimming pool that had a filthy rubber cover rolled across
not even the same kind of life—maybe you came back as
the child’s hand and she slapped him again even harder, then
thought, but whenever the moment came, there was no
despair that this animal too must surely have suffered. But
occasionally someone would want to pick some sort of
an island of estates invisible down winding roads,
but the total absence of self-consciousness turns
some mental calculation that might have involved measuring
day and night in order to maintain their gay demeanor.
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