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““I’ll make sure of that. I’ll give you all the tools.”
(I do not want tools Daddy)
“So when it matters, Son, you’ll know what to do.”
(Daddy all I want is you)”

“Jay rebounds, gravity’s revenge, he’s certain his flesh has been hurled from his skeleton and now slurps, squid-like, down the gullet.”

goodness

“Maybe Dad’s pride has always been there. Maybe Jay needs to slow his furious breath to see it.”

“It holds the pose: a comma in a sentence so large only gods can read it.”

“Jay jokes around and collects everyone’s orders so he can go inside, rush to the bathroom, sit inside the stall, press his mouth to his elbow, and gasp the sobs back inside. The Tarshishes are comfortable chairs. But those three people waiting outside are the tones of Jay’s voice, the organs in Jay’s body.”

“Can a man really vanish down here? Bones and all? When before, that man was the whole bay, the mountains, everything?”

“Jay looks away from the laughers as Dad lowers himself into shit.”

“Last night Jay dreamed of his father’s bones, buttery in a nest of purple kelp, bejeweled with red sea slugs like holiday lights. The bones were soft in his hands, a gentle touch he never got from Mitt and therefore never gave back. He slid them against his cheek. He kissed them. He woke up tasting marrow. Funny, it tasted like tears.”

dude.

“Jay focuses on the tide. It skims into the cove in long, curling cones that atomize under their own weight, strike down, scurry like albino snakes, and gasp in pleasure as they are sucked back into the sea between jagged black rocks.”

holy shit

“A downslope, then he’s hidden; release the old ladies with dogs!”