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Divorce
Staying Together
Being tied up till eternity through the children, writing to each other in a centrally located spiral notebook, consulting the I Ching
June 1993Promises
Driving home from work, Bones rehearsed what he’d say when he broke up with Linda. “I got to get out,” he might say. Or, “I’m no good for you.”
October 1992Straight From The Mouth
I didn’t think I’d hear again from my grandmother’s second husband, Uncle Benny, and then he called one Wednesday afternoon, three years after my grandmother had left him. I was stacking money on my bed at the time — ones on the pillow, fives at the foot, and tens in the middle where I could see them easiest.
August 1992Small Victory
I crashed my bike once. I bought an R75/5 — my first BMW. I was told I had to earn it. I didn’t quite understand at the time.
February 1992Enemies
Shifting into gear and ramming a garbage can into the wall, buying a house together, playing apple-war games
October 1991Going Out
A three-thousand-pound slab, a pair of sunglasses and a book, a sprouting of wings
March 1991Living In Lotus
Ever since the therapist said, “Rebecca, if only you’d let go once in a while, relax, flow, you’d be a lot happier,” I’d been trying to write in the lotus position.
August 1989The Law Of Relation
(Part Two)
They are lovers. He told me last night at 3 a.m., after we had taken several long walks, talking and coming to no resolution. After weeks of fighting, absolutely at cross-purposes, as though we were speaking entirely different languages.
June 1989
