American Attendance. →

I wrote a piece much longer than I usually do and maybe you’d like to read it and maybe it might make you feel something or think something or just remember that people make things and that’s just nice in itself. Here is an excerpt to maybe whet your whistle. Thank you and Hello.

collegiate crawl and
cul de sac withdrawal 
see my folks they’re good people
they’re very middle class
maybe once, for a couple years,
they were snuggly in the upper of the middle
and the mantle it felt brittle
as the banks wriggled us out
of Briarwood for being
too simple
and owning,
always,
too little,
and piling past any type of middle
the amounts we were
owing, 
(tiny violins,
 tiny fiddles.)

my napkin goes in my lap
and this right here
this is my water glass.

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    maybe it might make you feel something or think something or just remember that people make
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