But Then It Passed, As

I See America Has Infused You With The Optimism That Has Made Her So Great

She Thought Of Aziza's Stutter, And Of What Aziza Had Said Earlier About Fractures And Powerful Collisions Deep Down And How Sometimes All We See On The Surface Is A Slight Tremor.

I Thought About You All The Time. I Used To Pray That You’d Live To Be A Hundred Years Old. I Didn’t Know. I Didn’t Know That You Were Ashamed Of Me.

Quiet Is Turning Down The Volume Knob On Life.

Gone. Vanished. Nothing Left. Nothing Said.