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Telling Stories

from Late Lights by Late Lights

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Telling Stories

When I was ten,
I said a crematorium
was an ice cream parlor
for dead people. Even as
my father laughed, I knew
fire ravaged the body, that
it shattered the hair first and
then peeled the clothes away.
But the invention felt good
on my tongue. All through school
I couldn’t stop; hallways throbbed
with my voice, my deceit filling the air
with static and wonder: “The Spanish
teacher wants to sleep with me,” I told
friends between the thin gray lockers,
and, “Thomas Edison almost married
my great-grandmother.” My English
teacher encouraged me to write it all
down; my English teacher with a vein
of numbers tattooed on her forearm.
“We told stories to stay alive,”
she said. “To us, the Nazis weren’t
even humans.” On the last day of school,
our bus stopped at a railroad crossing.
My eyes followed the boxcars as they lazied
by. I could picture the countless hands
sticking through the slats, rain skidding
across their fingers, their open palms
stunned by the chill of spring air.

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from Late Lights, released July 3, 2018

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