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Lines 703-706: “And blood-black nothingness began to spin / A system of cells
interlinked within cells interlinked / within one stem.”
Q: I can’t imagine that to be a happy response.
A: (2) Page 17: “Now ‘happy’ is something extremely subjective.”
Page 17: “the lost glove is happy.”
I am the glove they found dead.
Q: Who are you?
A: (2) Who? (1) Me?
Q: Both of you.
A: [BLANK CARD]
Q: May I ask why you are here?
A: (2) This is where I hide. Nobody believes that I am who I am. Shade is miss-
ing. I’ve disfigured myself with a razorblade. I sit here and play ping pong.
Q: You said Shade is missing? Isn’t he dead?
A: (1) He is dead to you.
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