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22 july 2023 | southern self-righteousness and my inability to act
Cat runs into Dionysus’s room.
He is thrown into a fit of rage.
poor papaw says “Just calm down!”
dio says that he can’t.
Dio says that trauma and sadness is different in different people.
papaw inquires “I am sixty-four.
Sadness? You don’t know sadness.” with this pseudo-righteous voice.
I stand in the middle, like a decrepit judge.
The silence is plaintive
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