the two play tic-tac-toe by prison correspondence. the mutual doctor they once met through is now famous for being there when god was in labor. I love my research when it brings me to my mother’s stone because my mother’s stone is without epitaph and because beside my mother’s stone is one engraved with a phone number which predates what everyone is doing. I call the number and nothing. the two unfold a couch into a bed and go their separate ways to check email. their little devil details the car that didn’t get away. I want this little devil so badly it murders the actor I look like. the two stand in front of a movie poster and stand there just as they’ve planned. a beauty shop closes its doors sending beauticians into a street crowded with beauticians for open carry. I send Emily to search for Emily when Emily was pretty.