Depression & Other Magic Tricks by Sabrina Benaim

Author:Sabrina Benaim [Benaim, Sabrina]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
ISBN: 978-1-943735-26-6
Publisher: SCB Distributors
Published: 2017-02-15T05:00:00+00:00

the other side of a memory

we could have told you

she wasn’t herself since the tenth grade

sure, she still had a laugh like electricity

still went to dance class

put on mascara each morning for school

but something was off

something like how a light switch will still turn on

a half burnt bulb

it was hard to tell if she was a stubborn surge

or a tired, dimming circuit

then she started working weekends

stopped making it for dinner on Sundays

when she did she looked exhausted

but she was always missing our calls

telling us she had been asleep

she had never been one to lie

so we believed her

we wanted to believe her when she said she was fine

just fine / all right / okay / busy / good / okay / fine

we thought she would have come to us

if she was having any trouble we would have done anything

to help

all we’ve ever wanted was for her to be happy

for my nineteenth birthday, my brother gifted me

the board game hungry hungry hippos,

he said it was so i could play with my friends.

he was referring to the hippos.

we did not understand why she would not stop crying

even when we held her down to the couch begging her to

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