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Jennie Lightweis-Goff

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On Falling Off the Wagon.

-3 hours till sober day

September 1, 2019

Marco Lorenzi’s M45: The Pleiades Star Cluster from Astronomy Photo of the Day (September 1, 2019)


Humans distilled alcohol for the first time five millennia ago, in one of the bomb-bright...

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Where does it hurt?

It hurts a villanelle (ln: 19); we have not yet reached the sestina (ln 36).

Photos of the ghost town at Kennicott, Alaska (Library of Congress).

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On the End of Empathy.

I delete Substacks that begin with “On,” but you don’t have to.

The night my sister died, I lied. Or repeated a lie. Worst of all, I lied to her grieving son, who had called me to tell me that he had held her while they removed her from li...

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"Do you know who killed me?"

Finding a podcast about a friend's murder is the representative postmodern experience.

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The stars are bright with cause.

At the clinic they ask you if you have sex with men, and if those men have sex with men.

From Astronomy Photo of the Day, August 30 2020. I chose this photograph from NASA’s repository because it is temporally closest to QDJ’s death.

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