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Kyle Hemmings

    It’s a shame. I only know you from YouTube videos and taped interviews with people who may have passed you a drink at parties. I know. I know. That’s not “knowing” at all. I wish I could meet the gynecologist who did acid with you, who may have hallucinated your vagina as a multi-colored universe, his precise tools as sickly crabs, the heart more broken than the shell. I would like to have sat next to you on a park bench and talk about squirrels and fat ladies with poodles and secret ballerinas rehearsing in the bathroom and why Lawrence Welk is not a favorite with Swedish masseuses and why some unwed mothers carry sunsets in their bellies and the kindest thing your mother ever said before you sided with your father and whether it’s true that Nico’s vocals were dubbed over by a patient with a beautiful falsetto and who underwent no less than seven electro shock sessions. Would you allow me to sing? Would you wilt if I did?

    Instead, I’ll shut off my computer, hop on the subway that will take me uptown, marvel at all the glassy-eyed strangers who stare out but never see the transparent core of anything.

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