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I could sleep lying atop that animal, all iron smell, shifting from foot to foot. All hay. What would you take? What things? L. says Fire, and I understand that, and would take that too. Architecture, fretwork for structure. The miniature tea set for delicacy. Opera for blood. Iron for fortitude and weight. Linen as a reminder of skin. Crystal for simple music. Tin. Leather for harnessing. Paper. Milk. A boat. I'll stop one short. Ron Vawter is gone, I imagine you've heard. He was on an airplane, over the ocean when he was taken.
The stars shone down, while the moon rose up out of the bay. And there was your face, come to me from the dead. The summer I turned sixteen I rode a school bus two hundred miles to an abandoned medical school on the edge of a small state college. Badger Boys Statemock government. I endured the compulsory sports, the scooping chain-link bunks, patriotic music blaring at lunch time. The state coroner came to show us slidesa cautionary taleof the worst deaths he'd witnessedmen twisted into the power take-offs of tractors, a whole family overtaken by silo gas and fallen to their deaths while attempting rescue.
I look up at this boy, at his brown face and wheat-blond head, and my heart catches and I panic. In rest stops all across America, men wait in cars for sex to happen to them, the burning cities of their radios glowing, the voices ringing out like instructions for a new route home. There is that altitude that happens after sex, a heady chime like crystal, and thumbing their vinyl steering wheels I imagine the men hear it too. I have stopped to read the graffiti on the bathroom's beetle-colored walls.