Infidelities of Coal
The difference between
saying What’s funny about having a reputation for doing things you regret at parties is and thinking first of confidantes beneath leaves, napping like gnats in the afternoon, swarming toward dusk, then of the smouldering, always approximating self, more hooked than awhirl, a thread of ash looking back at the crawling coal, and finally of regret itself resting with its wings tucked across its back like a closed pair of scissors, housed in the eye, glinting in the facets of the eye, is that our words outsmart us the way a diamond out- smarts a seam, a miner outsmarts a diamond, a boss outsmarts a miner, etc., and even if the diamond-cutter does sometimes grimace, there we are atop the fiancé’s finger wondering why, if our lives are so important, they should be so proscribed.
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