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| ISBN-13: | 9781938912801 |
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| Publisher: | Write Bloody Publishing |
| Publication date: | 03/20/2018 |
| Pages: | 88 |
| Sales rank: | 562,800 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.90(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.40(d) |
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Excerpt from: My Mother Wants to Know if I'm Dead ARE YOU DEAD? is the subject line of her email. The text outlines the numerous ways she thinks I could have died: slain by an axe-murderer, lifeless on the side of a highway, choked to death by smoke since I'm a city girl and likely didn't realize you needed to open the chimney flue before making a fire (and, if I do happen to be alive, here's a link to a YouTube video on fireplace safety that I should watch). Mom muses about the point of writing this email. If I am already dead, which is what she suspects, I wouldn't be able to read it. And if I'm alive, what kind of daughter am I not to write her own mother to let her know that I've arrived at my fancy residency, safe and sound, and then to immediately send pictures of everything, like I promised her! If this was a crime show, she posits, the detective might accuse her of sending this email as a cover up for murder. How could she be the murderer, if she wrote an email to her daughter asking if she was murdered? her defense lawyers would argue at the trial. In fact, now that she thinks of it, this email is the perfect alibi for murdering me. And that is something I should definitely keep in mind, if I don't write her back as soon as I have a free goddamn second to spare.
Table of Contents
My Mother Does Not Give Advice 9
On Trying to Accept That I'm Not Moving Back to NYC 10
Moving Means That You Have To Touch Everything You Own Once 12
Portraits of My Mother, Far Away from Texas 14
Midtown 16
Lenox 17
Lenox II 18
My Mother Wants to Know if I'm Dead 19
Empire 20
Lenox III 22
Lenox IV 23
Money 24
Austin II 25
Austin III 26
Austin IV 27
Lenox V 28
After Telling My Parents Via Skype, My Mother Sends Me an Email 29
On Getting Facials with My Mother 30
Somnolence 32
10am Writing Sessions 33
On Renting a House an Adult Would Live In 34
Barton Springs 35
String Theory 36
Preparing for the Hardcover Tour 37
On Returning From The Hardcover Tour To You 38
Isn't Every Love Poem an Unfinished Love Poem? 39
Mother's Day, 2015 40
On Never Imagining It Ever Actually Happening 41
On Never Imagining It Ever Actually Happening II 42
To My Mother Whose Body Is Trying to Kill Her 43
Rabbit Hole 44
First Poem After 46
One Week After 48
On the Plane Ride Home 50
Text Exchange With Omar, Who Also Lost His Mom 52
Two Weeks After 53
Text from My Sister, June 2015 54
Three Weeks After 55
One Month After 56
Dark Luck 57
Two Months After 58
There Are Places I'll Remember 59
Three Months After 60
The First Check Up After My Mother Died 61
First Book Release After 62
The View from My Mother's Window 63
Four Months After 64
Five Months After 65
Six Months After 66
O Laughter 67
First Birthday After 68
First Thanksgiving After 70
Mile Markers 71
Seven Months After 72
Eight Months After 73
Nine Months After 74
Ten Months After 75
On Turtles 76
Eleven Months After 77
Also Not A Metaphor 78
Late May 79
Mother's Day Text Exchange With Omar, Who Also Lost His Mom 80
The Morning After Mother's Day 81
On the First Anniversary of My Mother's Death 82
June Wedding 84
Poems That Went Nowhere 85
Roil Call 86
Sleeping in Late with My Mother 88
Acknowledgements 91
Notes 93
About the Author 95