Short-a-Day: Leslie Jamison's "Quiet Men"
Originally published in A Public Space 03, Winter 2007. Personal enjoyment rating (out of 100): 82.We sat like grade-schoolers, barely touching. Neither one of us spoke. I pointed out the couple and we watched them change their baby's diaper against the fallen lights of the city. I felt the summer break into things I could hold in one palm: a bent cigarette and a steaming sweet-corn pie, my own tombstone carved in fo…
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