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Taken from The Shadows From Which We Rise by rg cantalupo:
From a new memoir by rg cantalupo.
Time.
Time drifts on an endless dream.
I wanted to be a writer. John Steinbeck. Someone.
Someone.
I wanted to love Janice forever.
Want.
My wormhole filled with want.
With daydreams and dream shards.
With gray images from a past life like cardboard men on a shooting range—two-dimensional, empty of expression, empty of life.
Time before, time after, and time now.
Time in the hospital, one day slipping into another, one week into two, until two and a half months are gone.
When I was lying on the ground after I got wounded, time slowed into a flicker of an eye, a half-step caught mid-air.
I heard each of my heart beats like seconds ticking away on a windup clock—tick, beat, tick—tick, beat, tick.
And as the blood poured out, puddled beneath my back and soaked my head, time stilled to a slug's slow crawl.... Read More Also In This Issue:
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