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2002-11-25.12:43 a.m.
Boxes Shelley Laughery Scholl 1. Surround yourself with sanity, padded walls for the hyperactive child, to protect yourself from the monster of genius. Secret your wildness behind a plain brown wrapper, and it seeps through your pores, sometimes overthrows your mind's pilot, crashing you into forced laughter and hasty apologies for spilling wine, consuming excessively, talking with your mouth full. 2. Hairspray-laden sweat beads slide down through porcelain beige foundation as Cinderella diligently pumps the Stairmaster pedals with glass-slippered feet and worries about her tuna casserole. 3. Contemporary sleeper sofa: Scotch-guarded, seafoam green. Remote-control conglomerate: TV, stereo, VCR. Kadinsky prints: Improvisation 31 (Sea Battle), Composition #238, Bright Circle and Two Ovals 1919. Chip clip, nonstick frying pan, handle tie trash bags, easy-to-assemble entertainment center with authentic whitewashed oak finish, coffee-table literature, 90-day warranties, Sunday paper coupon flyers, refrigerator magnets, obligatory sides of the bed. 4. I ignore you, hoping to avoid becoming victimized by the passive voice, as we fold up over ourselves, protective quadrangles of smallness.
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