READER, PLEASE

You didn't light my cigarette.
Offered your lighter so I could light it myself.
Recall the white room I took you to
when you could not breathe?
Reader, please, it's called chivalry.

Five years you've lived since that night
and you won't offer a flame?
You lay purple in the emergency
room, stuttering on the syllable of your name.
To think I actually prayed.

When the blood drained from your
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—Cate Marvin, from World's Tallest Disaster

Lia Purpura is interviewed in Orion.

The Lambda Literary Foundation has awarded Brian Leung its Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize.

T Fleischmann's Syzygy, Beauty is reviewed in the Star Tribune.

06-05-2012
You Have Given Me a Country

Kentucky Great Writers Series Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning 251 West Second Street Lexington, Kentucky 40507
7:30 pm Reading from You Have Given Me a Country and Same Sun Here With Cynthia Ellingsen and Jeff Worley


ccll1@carnegiecenterlex.org
(859) 254-4175
http://carnegiecenterlex.org/events/kentucky-great-writers-series/

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Syzygy, Beauty
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Rough Likeness
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Small Fires
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