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    The Evaporation of Hands
    The Evaporation of Hands
    The Evaporation of Hands
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    The Evaporation of Hands

    By Robert Louis Henry

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    Poetry and prose. No specific theme. A lot of yata yata and plenty of la-de-da.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLeaf Garden Press
    Release dateJun 15, 2012
    ISBN9781476119861
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      The Evaporation of Hands - Robert Louis Henry

      Too Cold for Bees

      a Safety Pin, a Bobby Pin, a Key

      It figures you'd bring me to a church, she says.

      It's a chapel, a bit rickety, a tarp with spray-painted, stenciled letters hanging over the entrance. The house of god. The house of oversized promises. Marriage isn't that different from baptism.

      She just nods. I unclasp the safety pin she'd used to pierce her lip and take a bobby pin from her hair. I stick the sharp end of the safety pin into the lock, act like I'm going to insert part of the bobby pin, and turn around.

      They keep a key in that light fixture, could you get it?

      The tarp says, Welcome Seniors. Inside are lines of pews in front of lines of computers, each one hooked up with line upon line of wires networking more lines.

      They say someone killed themselves here. First he took the bouquet from the vase, tossed it over his shoulder, and tried to drown himself by inhaling the water through his nose. The vicar or whatever found him wet and on his back, maybe crying a little, and asked him what happened. The man lied. So nobody wanted to get married here anymore.

      We sit as far away from the altar as possible. I'm thinking about how the Baptists would call these the seats for the backsliders.

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