HeyJaredRebounding
Essays about artists and other adults I admire. But also poems, recommendations, and serializing a memoir I'm writing called "Happiness Ruined Everything," chapters of which I'll post probably once a week. Oh, and I don't believe in trigger warnings.
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A Murder in Truro (opens the original)
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Morning, The Enigma (opens the original)
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Sometimes, in an hour that is probably earlier than when we were alone and waking up without knowing each other, we’d get some coffee and sit on one of the benches that face the traffic moving in both directions on Broadway. And we look at all the morning people in their cars going uptown or downtown, leaving or arriving, and me imagining how it’s a different kind of sadness or anticipation that comes with leaving or arriving and then, suddenly, me remembering how “The Enigma of Arrival,” is one
Pacing the Cage (opens the original)
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The Music of Craving (opens the original)
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When you pretended to shoot meon your porch with a gun that wasn’t thereI saw something in you that embarrassed meand the yellow light in your house seemedto illuminate only your room as if there wasn’tenough of it to spread into the heart under the stairsto distinguish something other than the temporarymadness that comes with being alone. I’m over-reacting.But when I saw you with that ghost machine gunin your hand and your face all squinted and confusedyou looked like a man I knew once who comi
Q (opens the original)
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