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For the third time this week and the fourth week in a row, I slip into my car for lunch. Something. Just. Feels. Off. Again. I can’t describe it concretely. Again. No voices in my head telling me to do this or that. Nothing black. But something like a cloud coming in and stalling out. Not a squall line that rolls in with a storm. One cloud.
William Auten – “Something Like a Cloud”
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