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"The First Lie."

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"She stood at the window between
her cubicle and the mailroom.

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A fury of white
lights-- just sun

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reflecting on another
office building's windows.

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What slams down
slams out and again

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until whiteness takes
over everything.

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Whiteness sounds like
witness in her mind.

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She wishes she hadn't
have quit smoking.

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She once felt closer to the sky
in childhood, a brief meeting

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with the clouds
and a curious grow.

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Now, the sky feels too
large and expansive,

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the impossible problem of
space and how to fill it.

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She lied the other
day in the lunchroom.

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A new temp, fresh out of
school, with an eager grin

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and her own stainless
steel coffee mug--

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what had she said?

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She said, he's away for work.

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Eyebrows twitched,
but no one corrected

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her, the hum of the
fluorescents like the beginning

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of a bad song.

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The lie tasted sharp and
flat like eating an index

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card, something that
wouldn't hurt you,

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but might erase the facts
and what some call the truth,

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whatever that is."

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