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willie nelson is singing You Were Always On My Mind after lunch at Wendy's on friday & all the cash registers of the world lock up & go into hibernation the customers stop chewing & the waitresses are all frozen in their tracks willie nelson owns this moment &i pause & listen as The Muse puts her hands inside my chest & begins the pounding the pounding the pounding of the dough = 0 102
The Dress Hannah Nahm My sister says she wants a cake, anything with chocolate, lots of it. I make a mental list of places I can go to order a specialty cake, sugar free, low fat. Maybe there's an imitation chocolate out there. My sis ter's at risk of diabetes and God knows what else. At five four, she weighs just under two hundred pounds. She tells me this. I weigh just under two-hundred. She doesn't bother lying about these things, things that I, if I could, would cover up even at my own funeral. I see her eat - a lot. A whole mound of apple pie, sal isbury steak, kimchee cake, anything she can get her hands on. Hospital food gets you fa t, she says. It's the hospital's fault. I think, which one, there's been so many. She's been wantingto die off and on since twenty-one. She's turning thirty in less than two weeks. Her recent diagnosis: bipolar with psychotic man ifestations. She'll be facing her birthday at a psychiatric rehab facility, but I'm not moping over it. There were other birthdays far worse. At La Montana there's a mirror in the bathroom, a real one. At least here, she could close the door behind her to shower. In her teens, we used to call her "Cliff-hanger Sandy." We were talking about her chest. It dropped, straight down, no traces of budding nipples anywhere. But after cyclic years of hospital admissions and discharges and now a couple of months at La Montana, she is doughy like a sumo wrestler. This time, she says, I want a whole cake. Don't have it cut into small pieces or anything. I want to be able to cut my own birthday cake. check point. But Sandy, I say, the hospital won't allow that. I'll never get beyond the There is static on the other line. I picture my sister thinking about what I just said. Maybe she's checking her left wrist. Maybe she's surprised at the many slashes she sees there. I'm Sorry would be nice. Did you hear me, I say. You still there? Talk to the doctor, Dee. He said he needs to talk to you. What about the knife, Sandy? How are you going to cut that cake without a knife? Do you think they'd actually let me bring in a knife? Sandy snorts into the phone. I'm not going to hurt myself with a plas tic cake knife. I can't! Well I guess you're the expert. But I don't need to catch myself because I would never say this. Instead, I say, I don't know, Sandy. I don't know. I'm good now. When are you going to call the doctor, she asks. I want to come home. 103
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