8373. NEW BONES TO MECKLENBURG

NEW BONES TO 

MECKLENBURG

Just thinking about you, I realized this

magazine has gotten everything all

wrong: You never lived in Jerusalem;

Jerusalem lived in you. I never have

sat here before, like this, this time

of day, with the sun as such in my

eyes. It's all so hard to get used to,

how things are always changing

and all parts of the interpreted 

world always move about. We

see it all as static, but it's not.

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Such moment-to-moment change

is why I know things linger but

do disappear. We only deal with

the passing thought of the passing

idea of the passing memory. Like

Jesus said, those last moments on

the cross, in some Aramaic tongue

only John and his Mother understood:

'Well, it could have been worse; they

could have brought out a flamethrower

and really singed my garment good.'