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In the nail salon, one's definition of sorry is deranged into a new word entirely, one that's charged and reused as both power and defacement at once.Being sorry pays, being sorry even, or especially, when one has no fault, is worth every self-deprecating syllable the mouth allows. Because the mouth must eat.

Poetic. Layered. This one’s for thumbing through slowly, not half-heard on the drive to work.

"If we are lucky, the end of the sentence is where we might begin. If we are lucky, something is passed on, another alphabet written in the blood, sinew, and neuron; ancestors charging their kin with the silent propulsion to fly south, to turn toward the place in the narrative no one was meant to outlast."