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how to avoid lung cancer
i finish two cigarettes on the way home. when i get in, i go straight to the bathroom and brush my teeth. i brush every crevice… my gums, my tongue, the roof of my mouth, and i get way back there – my tonsils and then into my throat and then way way down, all
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older
lying on Venice Beach reading The Stranger, which i read in college which was ten years ago. i squint through the sun at all these bodies and the skin around my eyes creases. it folds into an origami seagull and flies over all the bodies stretching and rippling and flexing and shining.
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the big green kite
a big green kite. a little boy chasing a big green kite on the beach as his father flies it like a skilled pilot. it dives, shoots back up. the kid lunges for it but it’s always just out of reach. he laughs when he misses. the Santa Monica mountains loom over me and the