In Review:
The self views itself as flaneuror cat about Oakland, hiding under carsbypassed by garbage trucks blue and dental in theirclinical attachments. The jostling plastics, dampened in frequency,reminds me of: Emily. Wittgenstein in the Blue and Brown notebooksimagines his brother in America. Is the brother of my imagination the brotherthat is my brother in America? I love Emily, fraternally. She sends me a snap, of weed_slut_420We live in an asset bubble of delusions. They rise, pneumatically, rings of smoke haloing: I avail myselfof having to avail myself. In flesh and in spirit. Clare texts, scripts, says "Hello, You are heartbroken.This is heartbreak, isn't it?" [End Page 231]
YL Xue lives in NYC and received the Galway Kinnell Memorial Scholarship from the Squaw Valley Community of Writers in 2019.
