Endings
October 15th, 2001
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The plane has gouged a mouth into the side of the building. The mouth exhales tidal waves of deep gray smoke that curl around the building's sharp steel angles like the way the smoke from the heroine's cigarette always curls perfectly around her face in old movies. People fall like meteors alongside the debris. The first guy I ever really loved somehow ends up holding me. It is the first time we have touched in over a year. I am no heroine. I walk uptown chainsmoking while downtown people are dying from breathing smoke. I hear a mother singing the end of the song: Life is but a dream. Her daughter cries. I think about the things I never told people. I think about the horrible beauty in the collapse of a mountain, and how graceful some things can be, falling apart. |