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The further I move into the future, the farther I am from the moments felt fleeting, deepsicks!<\/em> perfect for the telling, give the tubes something to talk about, number ones and zeros something to digest. The further I move closer to the past, the more terror and timing serrate my heart. That wasn’t part of my plan, however tightly I abide. Move to the city. Make some money. Check.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Serrate is an interesting verb, see. It doesn’t mean cut, it means to make cutting, jag that shit up, give it teeth and a taste for the vicious. Viscous. It’s easy to mix those words up, too, easy not to notice. Easy to get away with, though either way, you pay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m told my accent is an awesome Frankenstein of Fargo and West Coast Canada. I don’t notice. I don’t mind. In Vancouver I was exotic. Now I’m incomprehensible. Not the words that come out my mouth, just that I’m here, at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Minneapolis is old and new in ways I am too, and I’ve been seeking and exploring parts unfamiliar. Pubs and approaches, bike routes and catalpas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My windows face the back sides of other buildings, oil stains and pressure-washed graffiti apparitions. I’m close to Eat Street and its dozen Asian grocers, so I feel at home, whatever the hell that means. Food is crazy cheap, internet breaks the bank and more people ride bike than I remember.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fargo had some thunderstorms, new strip malls, mortgage crisis say what? they can’t build houses fast enough. I saw where the flood went. The lush lowlands were outta control green, skinny trees all fuck yeah we stood here the whole time<\/em> and I know it’s no lie, but it’s hard to believe. They put a dorm downtown. The new library gleams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A bright, bad day, I went to where the Pits were.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Thought the things I felt, felt the things I threw awayfinding overgrown trails trees forgotten youth totems, concrete mountains,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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rebar debris<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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and the dirty little river,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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lumps in ghost throats, brain fevers and shivers, my school of the hardest knock on these woods. Hit escape, hit delete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cross yourself and spin and spit and curse then leave yeah right<\/em> I broke the seal op’t the box swallowed the key.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I still ride the back of the devil that dreams me.<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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