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into melody, retreat, begin again: threnody, aubade,

threnody, aubade, like a man who wakes up

fill her blue cup with sunny ichor

Mr. Christopher squinted against her redolent perfume as she breezed confidently into his living room

an intelligent, amiable Greek whose soporific discourses on social injustice were his only fault

The truth is that it was not the most propitious time.