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Show Blue Run/60 and got in. It was cold-fifteen or so Renee should've gone back inside We all had colds. But we stood there waiting for them to leave, after a month in the Scenic Inn up the street, waiting out the holidays for their first grandchild. Presently, the door opened. Cap got out and walked carefully on the slick street The taillights caught him in the face just as he embraced his daughter He was a man who hurt-I could tell that. Way deep down, this man hurt. And they hugged each other in the snow for what seemed like a long time. Then Meg beeped the horn. The car slid a little on the street and they were gone Beside me, Renee smells like home. The sun will shine today and we'll make our way out of this in-between place. Fuck Dirky Lee, what does he know anyway Some day I'll thank him right. Fuck everybody, that's what O.W.'d said. I'm on my feet before I know it, punching the cinder block wall in the room with my sleeping wife and daughter. One, two three-the thwacks sear up my forearms. Out of the corner of my eye, Renee lifts her head. I see her see me-something passes between us. "What on earth, Joey? Are you crazy?" Lara's been fitted for hearing aids, though we've held off She sleeps mouth agape, the air rasping in and out. "Dirky, Dell, O W," I say. "Fuck everybody." |