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God Knows It’s Not Safe With Anybody Else
I want it to be over too, but it isn't. I want a lot of things. I want to get laid. I want to drink a Coca-Cola while sitting at the Old Room counter o…
Megan Koester
Jan 25
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The Why is How
The letters arrived with regularity, usually in my Facebook “other” folder, generally from people I had never met or, had I met, felt nothing for. “How…
Megan Koester
Jan 18
24
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Impress Less
I look at the internet, as there is nothing to do now but look at the internet, and all I see is noise. Too much noise, at that. If it’s too loud, am I…
Megan Koester
Jan 11
36
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Impotent Ire
Anger is an energy in that it never dissipates, it merely travels from subject to subject. It cannot be created or destroyed. And while you are welcome…
Megan Koester
Jan 4
24
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Mother as Doormat, Mother as Stepping Stone
If I’d kept the kid, I wouldn’t be alone on Christmas. But if I’d kept the kid, there’d be one more thing in this one bedroom apartment that needs a be…
Megan Koester
Dec 28, 2020
29
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Patient Numero Double Zero
My head is filled with numbers and there is little room left for anything else. Some of these numbers exist on spreadsheets; some exist on scraps of pa…
Megan Koester
Dec 21, 2020
21
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Everything is Just Trash
You want it new and you want it now and it doesn’t matter what it went through to get to you so long as it’s delivered before you realize you don’t act…
Megan Koester
Dec 14, 2020
26
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We’re Desperate, Get Used to It
The stimulus, if it ever comes, will not help. The rent will be defaulted on. The storefronts will shutter. The people will go hungry. It is unignorabl…
Megan Koester
Dec 7, 2020
30
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Living Can Ruin Your Life
I still have the scar, a small white sliver on the palm of my left hand. I had been slicing a piece of stale french bread with a serrated knife when th…
Megan Koester
Nov 30, 2020
15
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The Courage to Colonize
While the attempt may salve your guilty conscience, you cannot peacefully “coexist” with what you have destroyed; you can only demean those you have di…
Megan Koester
Nov 23, 2020
18
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When Will It End?
It’s not exactly a Kafka-esque nightmare, because Kafka was never on the dole. Fuckin’ guy was employed for most of his adult life, and when he got sic…
Megan Koester
Nov 16, 2020
17
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The Algorithm Took My Mother Away
I’ll be honest — I was more excited when I thought he was going to die. Which is not to say he isn’t currently trapped in a form of living purgatory, b…
Megan Koester
Nov 8, 2020
19
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