Ten.Six Hundred & Ninety-Three
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Donuts.
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The cinnamon roll is disappointing but it still goes well with coffee. I take my plate and cup to the sofa. Because the light in here just feels good to me.
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I leave witout saying very much.
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The sound of a water bottle sliding back and forth as I make my way around the curves. It’s too far for me to reach back and get.
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I decide to catch up on The New Yorker Poetry podcast. Safiya Sinclair reads Natalie Diaz and then one of her own pieces. Poetry does wonders for the soul.
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Invisible Mother.
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I go back to the car to eat my lunch, a spinach salad with blue cheese and spiced pecans and dried cranberries and some thin slivers of leftover bacon.
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This is the kind of blackness you could get lost in.
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Food is not just food.
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It’s hard not to stare and be so full of wonder.