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Michigan Hospital (Joseph)

from A Nest for Bird by A Nest for Bird

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Joseph, bored at the door of a Roebuck and Sears, spent all his time making windswept eyes through the girl at the counter. Boy, those were his best years. As you might have surmised, she was fond of a daydream. He was impressed, and lest you think less of him, he was a gentleman. They were married in Toledo by spring.

He found her unconscious, half the contents of a suspect cocktail spilled. He saw the glass upon her eye and knew the worst had occurred. The help on the line asked for a name on the will. "Diana," he screamed softly, to the operator's sigh. She said in cases such as this we do our best, but I'd guess she won't make it through the rest of the night.

(Joseph sells off all her excess dreams from a cheap hotel as she sleeps peacefully inside the morgue of a Michigan hospital)

On the phone with her folks saying "not this again! Please don't call me widower, that sounds like all my fault that she died on a table in Michigan."

(Fly away you churlish moth)

Delicate fingers like to linger on a velvet curtain drawn, pulling it back to reveal an actor, three shots, whisky, gone.

(Darkness creeping in at the seams like coffee cutting cream)

Though the barren stage suggests a lovely, long monologue, he can't deliver with a hole in his head.

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from A Nest for Bird, released December 2, 2015

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