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STRAIGHT FROM THE MORGUE

G.A. Scheinoha

Oh, that it was so easy to reproduce you. Simple as pulling a newspaper clipping from a wallet, unfolding it. Then you rose out of the photo and tumble of print beneath. As if this was the most normal thing in the world.
“You’re a little yellow around the gills. Must be jaundice coming on.” Answered only by that look: you twit. How’d you look if you were carried around in somebody’s billfold, carelessly creased, never seeing the light of day but once in every, oooh, I almost forgot, willya lookit this, however many years? Enough to rile anyone’s acids.
Especially when you’re just a paper thin apparition of your former self. Much simpler to send you back. Tear the sheet in half down its length or crosswise. Yet that’s no real solution. Just leaves behind half a memory, sharp enough to paper cut, bleed out whole, best forgotten yesterdays.

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