Diego at the Mission
Diego’s hair is white and thin-wreathed above his ears, thick and hard around his muzzle and spotty in deep valleys between his temples and his chin. No metaphor does justice to the slow death we all fight for even at the Mission; there’s no sex in the details and we’re not well worn leather or dry mud brick or other things with function. Old age is pain and medicine and penance for our youth; we are wise now but too weak to right the many wrongs we did on purpose. Old age is futile Purgatory and we sin in preparation.
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Enjoyed this one, thick in detail.
anonymom
December 3, 2007 at 8:47 pm
Hey there CC, Boston Literary Magazine Winter Issue is up. Check out my wordy bio. http://www.bostonliterarymagazine.com/win08dribble.html
anonymom
December 7, 2007 at 1:43 am
Very nice.
notesfromaroom
December 7, 2007 at 9:23 am
thanks, NFAR. and keep the Leonard Cohen coming.
TL, it’s good to share the Winter issue with you.
Christopher Cocca
December 8, 2007 at 12:48 am
I got bupkis I’m afraid. All dried up… What to do….
fromaroom
December 8, 2007 at 7:44 am
A quick note: I think someone added this to StumbleUpon today. Thanks to whoever did that…I appreciate it. This post has never seen so much traffic. Funny that this should happen on the day Nathan Key posted our interview where one of the things we talked about was microfiction as meme: http://www.nathankey.com/9/post/2009/07/interview-thursday-christopher-cocca.html
Christopher Cocca
July 2, 2009 at 6:57 pm
That’s so great!
Nathan
July 2, 2009 at 8:27 pm