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The Move (2)
by Angela Thomas
We both sat, stoned, on the stained yellow couch,
the Health Channel flickering on the TV, Extreme
Surgery, channel 78. Your hands looked big and rough, in your lap,
full of stories about where they had been and what they had held.
I noticed your nervous smile, and then, how your lips were being bitten
by your teeth and turning redder. On the TV, they removed a 300-pound tumor
from a lady. My eyes were focused on the mass of skin and fat
when I removed my hand and placed it on the couch dangerously close
to your radius of personal space. The smooth talking announcer from the show
explained, this move is groundbreaking, a larger mass has never been removed
at one time. The complications are paramount. The cushions shifted under
your tense movement when your fingers struggled to pull your hand over mine -
The operation was a success. The screen faded into a shot of the woman, without her
cancerous baggage. Right then, your hand felt like a warm crumpled paper.
02/23/2004 Posted on 02/23/2004
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