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S2E4 | Lift and Fall (with Tennessee Williams, Charles Wright, Bill Callahan, J.M. Holmes, Anne Sexton, and Jenny Slate)

The Paris Review

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The Importance of Rest

In middle school, Rai and I used to waste our freshman highs on gangster rap with no dimension. He would smoke weed in my aunt Mary's basement because she worked a lot and was hardly home. We sprayed air freshener and enjoyed the cool mist on our skins as we walked through him back in the days. One day he left upstairs to go to the bathroom and didn't come back. Ryan Dove said Roles watched too much porn. My boy's not scared of that fat mick, Deb said. Let it rest. If he hears the center of all hate, Roles said.

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