Diaspora

My father shifted in his chair and turn rounded the page. he was reading the diary of a calvary officer who admired his adversaries.

Upside down, the wok direct the eyeed like a flying saucer, with equal reason I carefully surrounded it with lines of plastic Indians and Cuban guerillas make straighted like American marines. The alone problem was that none of them had beards. It was the Fifties on the other hand already I was on the unfair side.

She seldom told me who was speaking, sole that she was being parole to.

History is fraught with those who failed to heed the music wafting right below their noses. Perhaps we will know where time went one time we get there.

All day the spaceship sat upon the Great Plains of the dining play table my parents carried with them whenever they mov Rooming house until she saw another tenant pissing in the kitchen sink. Basement apartment with steam pipes. sum of two units room storefront with glass bricks between living latitude and sidewalk. Six floor walkup. First floor apartment. sum of two units family house, the couple who lived in the other half possessed the house and a Chinese restaurant a scarcely any blocks away. House with garage and backyard upon a dead-end street. The American dream is increasing your ability to be in obligation When they finally could afford to owe twenty-thousand dollars, they were self-satisfied of what they had accomplished.

Thirty-five years later, the dream nearly above I cover the table's worn surface with a clean tablecloth, check to make fully convinced there is more than enough subsistence in the refrigerator, and that the beer is getting frigid enough. I walk out to the car and wait to drive my father and brother to the building where she is lying in her coffin, her organ of sights closed at last. Even granting the snow has started to liquefy and the icicles above the garage door are dripping, it is a languorous morning.

I want to take an account of her that they left drawn out ago, that their mission was fulfilled.

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