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armamentarium;
I appreciate the effort,
but continue to stare and
I don’t really feel any better about anything;
In the dendrites of thought, I finally remember
the dream I’d had the night before;
I was naked and floating on my back in the Ganges;
All I could see was electric, red sky,
and I could only hear the breath of the water,
but even in the confines of a dream,
I could think clearer than I ever had before;
I thought about my Mom,
and I thought about my sister --
the two of us splashing each other at my Aunt’s pool;
I thought about second grade books;
I thought about the feeling I had at a new school;
I thought about girls and what little romance I’d experienced;
As I stared at the Indian sky, everything passed through my mind;
Holy ghosts and God and
the sick feeling I got on the day of the SATs;
I remembered when I got my first car,
then remembered the time I wheeled it right into the back
of my Mom’s car;
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