Guy calls the doctor, says the wife's266Please respect copyright.PENANADBAvOicQpd
contractions are five minutes apart.266Please respect copyright.PENANAtyE1iOvggu
Doctor says, Is this her first child?266Please respect copyright.PENANAbii5HzlO4z
guy says, No, it's her husband.
I promise to try to remember who266Please respect copyright.PENANAGgEqnD4CP2
I am. Wife gets up on one elbow,
says, I wanted to get married.266Please respect copyright.PENANA6PiUf1ougL
It seemed a fulfillment of some
several things, a thing to be done.266Please respect copyright.PENANAmnziW99sON
Even the diamond ring was some
thing like a quest, a thing they266Please respect copyright.PENANAw5gaqdasaq
set you out to get and how insane
the quest is; how you have to turn266Please respect copyright.PENANANqC5iaqhta
it every way before you can even
think to seek it; this metaphysical266Please respect copyright.PENANAvpWmZaPncN
refraining is in fact the quest. Who'd
have guessed? She sighs, I like266Please respect copyright.PENANAFZnoUvhjae
the predictability of two, I like
my pleasures fully expected,266Please respect copyright.PENANAufUHxwJqXw
when the expectation of them
grows patterned in its steady266Please respect copyright.PENANA4FEeYa0nbH
surprise. I've got my sweet
and tumble pat. Here on earth,266Please respect copyright.PENANAmyzkS1BCos
I like to count upon a thing
like that. Thus explained266Please respect copyright.PENANAh1TG8lZKPd
the woman in contractions
to her lover holding on266Please respect copyright.PENANAeGJF0ErwXS
the telephone for the doctor
to recover from this strange266Please respect copyright.PENANAP7rfJMDfCK
conversational turn. You say
you're whom? It is a pleasure266Please respect copyright.PENANAXU2EveJQG2
to meet you. She rolls her
eyes, but he'd once asked her266Please respect copyright.PENANA1iZTiL6opX
Am I your first lover? and she'd266Please respect copyright.PENANAbbu7MvIXgM
said, Could be. Your face looks266Please respect copyright.PENANALS0vAG4dd1
familiar. It's the same type of
generative error. The grammar266Please respect copyright.PENANALxBfS8cK7V
of the spoken word will flip, let alone
the written, until something new is266Please respect copyright.PENANAYeiL38kiqB
in us, and in our conversation.
- Jennifer Michael Hecht
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