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S1E1 | Times of Cloud (with Eileen Myles, Wallace Shawn, Maya Angelou, Sadie Stein)

The Paris Review

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The Car Wreck

I was thrown against the back of their seats so hard that it broke. A liquid which I knew right away was human blood flew around the car and rained down on my head. When it was over, I was in the back seat again just as I had been. Our headlights had gone out. The radiator was hissing steadily. Beyond that, I didn't hear a thing. As far as I could tell, I was the only one conscious. It must have still been raining, but I remember nothing about the weather. We'd collided with another car and what I now perceived was a two-lane bridge. Moving toward the other car, I began to hear rasping metallic

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