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EASTER: THE RESURRECTION

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Cecilia Corrigan
May 17, 2021
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A second excerpt from The Gay Divorce. Previously in this series: Bluebeard

Easter: The Resurrection

1.

If this is a quiet competition

I’m being the quietest.

And I think you should know, that’s not even my top skill.

Did we win? 

I feel like we didn’t win 

I’m just gonna lie here for a bit. 

I am putting the box in a box and 

I’m burying the box 

I’m beckoning my crew around me 

like yeah back up, move over, dig crane dirt and I have their respect obviously

Till there’s that awkward moment I realize I forgot to put you in the box. 

Daddy daddy you bastard, you really got me this time!

Did I do that?

♪🎵 little girl on a windowsill, watch me rain

little drop of blood on the bathroom floor,

Yeah, oh yeah it’ll be alright (no it won’t)

Don’t ask me what your neck smelled like you poser! ♪🎵

I wake up inside the box,

double oops,

and realize I should never have requested the truth about your Vanishing 

Because no one can say you didn’t warn me that if you 

showed me what happened to her,

I’d have to promise not …

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