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You are nothing like my father. And like my father you are nothing.
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I throw/my head back,/& stare at the slowest lightning,/the stars.
Eduardo C. Corral
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You’d wait in the orchard for hours to watch a deer break from the shadows. You said it was like lifting a cello out of its black case.
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The heart can only be broken / once, like a window.
Eduardo C. Corral -
Once a man offered me his heart and I said no. Not because I didn’t love him. Not because he was a beast or white — I couldn’t love him. Do you understand? In bed while we slept, our bodies inches apart, the dark between our flesh a wick. It was burning down. And he couldn’t feel it.
Eduardo C. Corral -
If I ask for a goldfish, he spits a glob of phlegm into a jar of water.
Eduardo C. Corral