Saturday, June 21, 2025

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The apartment is gone, like the rest of the day;

a Vitamin Water left in the sink. I’m misreading
my own scribbles again. I believe I wrote done
rather than gone, as in, perhaps, finally clean.
Gone would come later. The bottle is smack dab

in the middle of the sink. I cannot regurgitate the
image. Did I once drink Vitamin Water regularly?
Is that a Southern thing? the Marvel asks about
the phrase smack dab in the middle of. I suppose,

I reply, always turned upside down a bit by the
inappropriate words. Southern for where I’m from,
as told by the man who lives below the actual
Southern Hemisphere. A quick calculation of how

how many miles there are from Peru to Arkansas 
shows me 3,256. Most all directly northward.

"Southern"