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Audio Recording - Advice Column 

Advice Column

Easy—

To survive?

My eyes are filled

with the triangle

shapes of faces I

have yet to meet—

Expectation is

different than

excitement;

A church steeple

on fire, old theatre

seats with the

permanent smell

of leaves, wet with

autumn, a coldness

in my heart that I

would mistake for

a heart attack except

that I must be too young

for that sort of thing—

An insect, with wings—

An insect strapped to this

earth by an elaborate

web of silk—

People do not always

gain wisdom as they age—