sun-bleached bones thought lost to the river // surfacing in search of étymos . . . . . . big fan of bayous

My ex (who lives in another state) is indeed in this airport, horrifying. He hasn’t noticed me yet
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if he has been brought into this event in my life seeking resolution then I will of course try to provide it to him, crazy as this shit is. It’s the crazy shit that’s meant for you though
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Chat, should I trust airport sushi?
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I met a man there named Puttin. Yes, Puttin—no, Not *Putin*. He advised me, "two Ts because I'm not that man." He lead us to a tuktuk with a decal of Che Guevara on the front. Greeting everyone we passed with true familiarity, they returned him in kind; bobbling heads, smiling.
I attended an “inter-caste” destination wedding in Tamil Nadu between two first-generation Americans. There I danced with Brahmins (the family of the atheist meat-eating groom) and caste abolitionists (the family of the religious vegetarian bride) alike.
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I liked him most when he was circling Krishna's Butterball photographing us, posing us in ridiculous situations, met by cheers from other Indians. The man laughed like a boy, then. Afterwards, he jumped into the bough of a tamarind tree and brought down an edible blossom for me.
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"Bitter," he advised. "But I like it."
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I liked him most when he was circling Krishna's Butterball photographing us, posing us in ridiculous situations, met by cheers from other Indians. The man laughed like a boy, then. Afterwards, he jumped into the bough of a tamarind tree and brought down an edible blossom for me.
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"Bitter," he advised. "But I like it."
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I attended an “inter-caste” destination wedding in Tamil Nadu between two first-generation Americans. There I danced with Brahmins (the family of the atheist meat-eating groom) and caste abolitionists (the family of the religious vegetarian bride) alike.
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I will lay out my souvenirs for you like flowers gathered on a mid-morning walk 🪷
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If you don’t love me at my wire mother you don’t deserve me at my cloth mother
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Lisan al-Gaib
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The smell of my host mom’s soap: oat and rose. An uncommon enough combination, like the two of us. Try as I might, I can’t find the particular brand—but at times, in public, a trace of her wafts unseen and I am flooded.
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