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 By J. A. Tyler, Nov 17, 2008

Because he knew the girl was never coming, and because he knew he would die, as everyone dies, as the world falls petal to mortar to dirt to decay, he chugged a cedar log from the green of a slumbering patch of forest, cursed it back to his house, a home of tinder, and cut, sawed, splintered it into a smooth and perfectly shaped box for his heart, for his body, for himself.

He laid in it to get the fit.

The girl nowhere around, flying or rowing in the scrape of the sun, the blue. The Other not yet born of his own mouth, his own gagging senseless lack of words.

He built the end of himself.

J. A. Tyler is the author of THE GIRL IN THE BLACK SWEATER (Trainwreck Press), EVERYONE IN THIS IS EITHER DYING OR WILL DIE OR IS THINKING OF DEATH (Achilles Chapbook Series), SAMSARA (Paperhero Press), & SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE (Ghost Road Press). He is also founding editor of MUD LUSCIOUS and ML PRESS. Visit aboutjatyler.blogspot.com for more.

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