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| Borderline Mambo; As if we don't like secrets | |
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| Lemony Snicket | Jul 20 2014, 09:20 AM Post #1 |
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As if the lid stayed put on the marmalade. As if you could get the last sip of champagne out of the bottom of the fluted glass. As if we weren't all dying, as if we all weren't going to die some time, as if we knew for certain when, or how. As if the baseball scores made sense to the toddler. As if the dance steps mattered, or there's a point where they don't. For instance wheelchair. Heart flutter. Oxygen bottle mounted on the septuagenarian's back at the state ballroom competitions—that's Manny, still pumping the mambo with his delicious slip of an instructor, hip hip hooray. Mambo, for instance, if done right, gives you a chance to rest: one beat in four. One chance in four, one chance in ten, a hundred, as if we could understand what that means. Hooray. Keep pumping. As if you could keep the lid on a secret once the symptoms start to make sense. A second instance, a respite. A third. Always that hope. If we could just scrape that last little bit out, if only it wouldn't bottom out before they can decode the message sent to the cells. Of course it matters when, even though (because?) we live in mystery. For instance Beauty. Love. Honor. As if we didn't like secrets. Point where it hurts. Of course we'll tell. |
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3:34 AM Jul 11