The Uninnocent
““You’re just looking for some kind of false peace by going groggy on me, girl,” he said. “Just hoping that in some lame dream of yours, love is gonna get returned to you from a place none of us can ever return love from.” As if Lovell ever knew a single thing about peace, false or otherwise. Not to mention love, or as he liked to call it, lovelling.
This was the year when the Soviets crossed over into somewhere, and there was bloodshed also in Haiti, as well as many deaths in Beirut, I don’t re...member which year but do remember that mine was not the only life in chaos. Selby was born before things began to go straight downhill, a shining star in an otherwise totally black sky. Just how many people, you might wonder, can one soul lose in a season? Well, nearly everybody that mattered, at least in my measly world. And what does a person do after all the funerals, the burials, the cremations, the memorial services, the condolence cards and caskets, the sad recreations we living must engage in when Daddy Death comes knocking?MoreLess
This was the year when the Soviets crossed over into somewhere, and there was bloodshed also in Haiti, as well as many deaths in Beirut, I don’t re...member which year but do remember that mine was not the only life in chaos. Selby was born before things began to go straight downhill, a shining star in an otherwise totally black sky. Just how many people, you might wonder, can one soul lose in a season? Well, nearly everybody that mattered, at least in my measly world. And what does a person do after all the funerals, the burials, the cremations, the memorial services, the condolence cards and caskets, the sad recreations we living must engage in when Daddy Death comes knocking?MoreLess
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