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Range

Aren't you a medicine man?

Aren't your lungs full of blue smoke and jars of dust that your mother collected in Idaho?

Are you confident in the permeability of memory?

Confident in your snake oil cures?

 

I think I know you

I think I've been waiting for you patiently sipping my beer and humming "golden slippers"

I think the best thing about home is that there are almost no poisonous plants here and the bees rarely sting me

 

You sang the second verse of "Home on the Range,"

the verse that nobody knows

And I couldn't breathe thinking about what my life would have been if it hadn't been this

narrow

 

I went ahead and bought the miracle elixir

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holly-salvatore
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Dec 1, 2015
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