SEQUENCE OF MASQUERADES

“When people freed themselves they usually forced change on everyone else. In fact, the first thing people sometimes did with their freedom was to find another version of the thing that had imprisoned them.”

— Rachel Cusk, Transit

I’m ready to tour around town in my cheetah coat, with my square head carefully screwed on. Pursue me, I whisper to the moss growing around the doorframe. I know I seem like a 1950s square, buying a house “upstate,” a friend says over the phone from the opposite coast. But hey, I was at a sex party last week. That’s very on-brand for you, I say. He describes the sauna, how everyone could finally snap the thread of tension. Mhm, I say into the device, wondering about different kinds of death, vibrations, how to live within a limited frame.

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