
The Weekend Read: Helen Garner’s lockdown diaries, 2021
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How Old Are You?
Oldness seems to be creeping up on me in longer than usual steps. Janet malcolm has died. I learnt so much from her i can hardly count the ways. Drove to kensington as night fell to pick up the 14 year old from footy training. Waited in a row behind the goal posts with the other masked adults. In the black sky above the outing panting boys. A cold full moon was rising. The test was negative. On t v, i saw the collapsed apartment block in miami demolished by explosive. It crumpled like paper and went down in thick clouds of gray white dust. Like pretty much everything these days, especially crowds behaving decently
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