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Category: Gary Lutz

I had to piece together a diet for her, too. I knew which combinations of which foods on which days would rehang everything that was draped so delicately beneath her skin. In a matter of months, the body under the smock was organized anew, redistributed

body, diet, food, rearranging, skin

You get tired of always wondering anew why life has to take the place of youth.

aging, getting-older, les-jadis, wisdom, wry-humor

From time to time I show up in myself just long enough for people to know they are not in the room alone.

alone, humour, non-existence, unnoticed

They weren’t hours, these classes; they weren’t even forty-five minutes–they were “periods,” which sounded to me as if they were each at once a little era and then the end you had to see decisively put to it.

They weren’t hours, these classes; they weren’t even forty-five minutes–they were “periods,” which sounded to me as if they were each at once a little era and then the end you had to see decisively put to it.