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pie lady, listen up. this life will kill you.

[the waitress]

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when i spend a lot of time looking at the way my nails push out of the edges of my body like grass i start to feel like an hourglass on feet. they make life seem more like a timeline.

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sometimes i think that if i lived on a boat things would work out better. i could train myself to be a pearl diver. i wouldn't mind spending a few hours a day holding my breath. up here we give away all the worst parts of ourselves. down there under the green skin of the water i would be thoroughly self-contained.