your almost militant commitment
"Your Almost Militant Commitment," March 6, 2022 (#65)
title from Schitt's Creek 6.1 "Smoke Signals" (2020)
A Stranger In This World: Stories by Kevin Canty (1994)
You Are Not a Stranger Here: Stories by Adam Haslett (2002)
No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories by Miranda July (2007)
More of This World or Maybe Another: Stories by Barb Johnson (2009)
Your Almost Militant Commitment
You stand in the sunlight, feeling the yellow warmth of
the image of a bustling town square during some kind of revel.
Everyone explains that it was absolutely necessary to know how
to say yes, before she lets go. Before she lets herself fall
while the ocean wind blows through the streetlights and
something about the law courts. There's always news of the courts.
There was a small basket of old apples in front of the neighbor's door with
something tasty right here in this elaborate kitchen, which, from the looks of
the revealing moment, accidents of skin when a bathing suit was
reaching out the window and mashing it against the iron casement,
would be a really good sewer because most of the clothes in the world are
tempted to believe that I have pulled Calvin into my present tense with
the engine to get out of the way and went through the red light at
the dirty right angle where the sidewalk meets the foundation stones of
a dream come true. The music, the cowboy, was a part of this. It made the air thicker,
and cast iron pots send steamy prayers into the air, the lid of the biggest one clanging.
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From Bag of Bones (2011).