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A Small Unkindness

Ian Mullins

The least I can do
is tell the truth –
so why bother?
Better lie down
on the sand
until it buries me
into a history
whose footnotes
will remain unread:

or sit in the window
reading the same book
over and over,
telling myself
this time the ending
will be better;
this time everyone dies.

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