2014 Myriad

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Triumph B onnilee K aufman

Son, shut the door. Autistic to a tee he remains in position sentry to edibles he summarily refuses without ever really tasting, forever two years old, stuck that awful ‘no’ stage;

B o n n i l e e K au f m a n

The child gangly and tall for his age, is mindlessly staring into the depths of the fridge seems like eons sans selection and the mother kind, patient and intellectually well versed on the subject of autism suddenly just another mother who can’t take it the wastefulness of our resources the cold refrigerator air escaping leaking out

Son, listen to me a bit louder, almost catching one of his wavelengths as he stands communing with the fridge light, pressing it’s button on off on off Son, shut the damn door she rarely loses it, witnesses this other self. CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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