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Readers Write
Readers Write
The God Of My Childhood
Killing God; discovering orgasms; feeling connected by a giant, invisible web linking all things
July 1991Readers Write
The Sixties
Investigating conscientious-objector status, attending a rock festival, plucking strychnine tufts from a bag full of peyote buttons
April 1991Readers Write
Going Out
A three-thousand-pound slab, a pair of sunglasses and a book, a sprouting of wings
March 1991Readers Write
Homelessness
A huge beach umbrella, a Methodist church parking lot, a fire hydrant
January 1991Readers Write
Shyness
Picture days in grade school, summers on fire lookouts, Saturday afternoons at the movies
December 1990
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