It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over by Anne de Marcken

Author:Anne de Marcken
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Giramondo Publishing

I discover I don’t have to decide to move or to not move. I can lie here for a hundred years. Five hundred. The squirrels sit in the branches and eat the plums, dropping the red skins and pits onto me. The apples fall heavily and make a vinegar smell. All the leaves fall. I am covered in leaves. The rain falls.

At first it is a relief to have stopped deciding, and then it’s not. It is not a relief and it is not hard. To not decide. To not move. I thought it was hard, but then I realise it isn’t actually.

At some point I find I am getting up without having decided. I wish I could lie back down and cover myself again with the leaves, but it is too late.

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I leave the garden behind the house behind the house. The apple tree and plum tree are bare as the old women we will not be together. They hold each other.

—

It is winter now. I continue west.

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