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Review: Joel Peckham’s Gone the Sun

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Family Man

I waited on the front porch of my grandmother’s house for over an hour before I gave up on my great uncle showing up to take me to the movies.

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That was not me.

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Sober ten years, my grandmother /

“got right with the Lord, though she still talked /

about her drinking days…

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When your body cuts loose the crust / of its grudges

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The form reads:

do you have a disability?

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And the days were now shaped by omens.

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If I’m precocious, it’s because I love /

to flirt with my own interment.

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Once I read about a boy from Northern Pakistan who didn’t experience pain.

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i practice missing the bus…

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I remember being something like light.