Cheltenham: CHS Facade edition with preface

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#262Welcome to America: if you can’t be jocular,you can’t be. Keep your grief to yourselves, youlittle underlings. This is the subtext of a mediaenterprise that is a literal boa around this tossedgeneration. Every time I say these words outloud, I cut against more grains than Huysmans.So don’t say it, asshole. Keep your grief toyourself. The media stands on a pile of bodies.Fare thee well to present moments. Rags toriches becomes womb to tomb. Could somebodyplease pass me the mustard?14
#268Satin blouses, trinkets (some kind ofjade pendant), & the big trinket betweenher legs that nobody gets to play with.Rare meat. She’s been babied by herparents since her birth (Rabbit year,a juxtaposition more sad than ironic),and suddenly I can teach her something?And I thought of what she was tellingherself in response, and the words cameto me, “I’m doing this because I promised,my Mom wants me to do this, now I promised, I have to do this.”15
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Page 7 and 8: #414And out of this nexus, O sacred
Page 9 and 10: #671Even as a little girl, she got
Page 11 and 12: #415There’s something sweet and s
Page 13 and 14: #213You and your proud working-clas
Page 15 and 16: #216You can force your pen into a c
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Page 25 and 26: #524When he drives around Elkins Pa
Page 27 and 28: #215“The girl in the black dress
Page 29 and 30: #429It’s Friday night, and she’
Page 31 and 32: #1632The guy with the hedge-clipper
Page 33 and 34: #1672Poets are boringpeople, she sa
Page 35 and 36: #1163In the dream I lied, I saidI w
Page 37 and 38: #1566Your voice came through her (I
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Page 41 and 42: #1113Her money, she repeats to hers
Page 43 and 44: #1503This I tell you—you can live
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Page 47 and 48: #563red dress, itsthat, that, pink,
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Page 53 and 54: #1131She goes to a lake, thinks of
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Page 57 and 58: #1200She asked me how I did it,I tu
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Page 67 and 68: #271“Never forget: Cleopatra had
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#148Everyone knows she has about tw
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#151Last time they met, she keptspi
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#193Why, as I climb Old York Road,t
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