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Q. You thought it was a shot, didnât you?
A. No, i thought it was the wind
and the wind shot the muscle of the cloudâs arm off and the cloudâs right breast. and shot a hole in its back. and the wind shot the chimneys out of the chandeliers. fired off its six-shooter at the moon. one bullet hit the side of the moonâs head and just split the skin. next place the wind shot a hole in the moon, just between the top of its shoulder and its heart. and the next place it was shot was through the wrist. the wind shot at the moon with rifles just like it was takinâ a walk, till the wind shot it down. the wind shot a hole in its intestines. so they say that if it ate solid foods too early, its intestines would break again.
the sun burst through the clouds above the shack, and some children caught drops of rain that rolled off the roof. the trees were filled with robins that looked like flowers among the branches.
the wind was shoulder-to-shoulder with its guns and shot a hole in the clouds and then the wind, it just ran right through the hole.
Q. You found him on the floor?
Q. You had to step across his body to get into the room?
i thought he was crying and went to ask him what was the trouble,
but it was with one eye he wept unceasingly,
while with the other he laughed.
his left leg like a man hanging out the window of a stagecoach with the wind in his face. and the right like a man in his dressing gown and pyjamas clutching a bottle of milk.
his arms were his arms and his rifle was his rifle but the veins that stiffened his folded arms were like miniature straws. like drinking straws that are hollow but stiff.
his open eyes were scattered like broken glass underneath the kitchen table. a criss-cross pattern of adhesive tape on the panes. behind his eyes cats stared at the pigeons walking around on the dusty paths.
i stepped over him and caught my foot.
It was matter first
there was no blood when i first saw him, not on his clothes or body. he was bleeding at the mouth afterward,
a stream of red bees pouring from the swarm
pouring out their gladness, pouring from the throat
where i held a vibrating fork, over his mouth like an empty
fruit-jar
he couldnât speak but he could exhale stroke-scribbles and loop-scribbles and circle-scribbles;
then a movement that reached out and looped freely and then
contracted into a knot;
then hand-writing in sweeping curves with ribbon-like patterns;
then a bear, that had ears, more and more and bigger and biggerâand legs, lots of them, and it ran with them;
then a self-portrait: the arms and neck heavily shaded, there was an interminable double row of buttons irrelevantly placed down one side, and a pocket over the breast area;
then a lively maritime scene: a sailor drinking and hiccupping; another yelling dlog, dlog, having discovered a treasure chest. meanwhile, a swordfish pointing at the submerged part of the hull.
all this took place under a smiling sun;
upon noticing a similarity between his scribble and a bird i added two vertical lines for legs
he was bleeding at the mouth afterward,
but not when i first saw him.
A. i felt to see whether his hands were warm. i tried to keep him alive
His hands had lost their snow coats. She burnt her finger on the inside of Alexâs lip. on Alexâs tongue she felt the belly of a dog, the stiff, cold belly of a dog. She felt the stiff leg of a dog. She had been breaking apple stems.
She felt the eyes had stupid expressions. So she placed tin foil in the eye sockets and gave them a partial water bath, by means of a small watering can. The stars began to tremble against them as on a dark sky and the pupils shattered into a hundred grains of wheat.
Alexâs cheeks were red from the exercise. She fanned away frigorific rays. She turned his hair inwards. She blackened his bottom. She imagined his brain like clothes warmed from the sun burning through a suitcase.
Alex became the fur of several delicate animals. A rising moon with no features, and in the wrong part of the sky. A traffic cone. A rotten sunset. She felt confined in a metallic vessel. She felt the freezing slats of a bench on her bottom.
A paisley woman
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