Guy calls the doctor, says the wife's56Please respect copyright.PENANAYQjD4a8iRC
contractions are five minutes apart.56Please respect copyright.PENANAGsao2XPpmu
Doctor says, Is this her first child?56Please respect copyright.PENANAAqdDdeV0s8
guy says, No, it's her husband.
I promise to try to remember who56Please respect copyright.PENANATGjImffVEQ
I am. Wife gets up on one elbow,
says, I wanted to get married.56Please respect copyright.PENANArtlfdYnaRU
It seemed a fulfillment of some
several things, a thing to be done.56Please respect copyright.PENANA6G0eEGQby2
Even the diamond ring was some
thing like a quest, a thing they56Please respect copyright.PENANARoPmBoJ4Iv
set you out to get and how insane
the quest is; how you have to turn56Please respect copyright.PENANA9YH1dXji6F
it every way before you can even
think to seek it; this metaphysical56Please respect copyright.PENANA3cRPSIOoD2
refraining is in fact the quest. Who'd
have guessed? She sighs, I like56Please respect copyright.PENANA7ssaI3BzPb
the predictability of two, I like
my pleasures fully expected,56Please respect copyright.PENANAtfUlOOER1g
when the expectation of them
grows patterned in its steady56Please respect copyright.PENANAnlWZeWfNhW
surprise. I've got my sweet
and tumble pat. Here on earth,56Please respect copyright.PENANAbBFRSxlilC
I like to count upon a thing
like that. Thus explained56Please respect copyright.PENANAEldpoB4vaz
the woman in contractions
to her lover holding on56Please respect copyright.PENANAwoQ1jBzTMz
the telephone for the doctor
to recover from this strange56Please respect copyright.PENANAJhnq8VJspQ
conversational turn. You say
you're whom? It is a pleasure56Please respect copyright.PENANATqOn67564V
to meet you. She rolls her
eyes, but he'd once asked her56Please respect copyright.PENANAgI4N60eqTI
Am I your first lover? and she'd56Please respect copyright.PENANAJFLbR27vtp
said, Could be. Your face looks56Please respect copyright.PENANAFSGc73kr8H
familiar. It's the same type of
generative error. The grammar56Please respect copyright.PENANAIDcYpdJWPh
of the spoken word will flip, let alone
the written, until something new is56Please respect copyright.PENANAdHm6QyCgL4
in us, and in our conversation.
- Jennifer Michael Hecht
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