The Infernal by Mark Doten

Author:Mark Doten
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-55597-335-3
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 2014-08-16T04:00:00+00:00

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I told Donny there were things to do now

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told him in my quarters as he helped me try boots.

Things to do, let’s make a list …

Things in the Green Zone need doing, but first, boots …

Gather them all, Sunnis, Shi’as, Kurds, get them all around a conference table, I’m thinking walnut and brushed steel, I told Donny …

Get all the documents at the table and just get everyone looking, double down on this, strike that, keep Jay out of it, he’ll just fuck it up, it’s not a porta-potty, it’s walnut and steel …

33a, now that’s going to be a sticking point …

It’s easy, just a question of one page at a time, this clause, then the next, and before you know it the sun’s down, 33a is way back behind you …

Inspirational quotes, try and get a set of those …

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Maybe a sing-along or a you know a carol or something, there’s something we could think about …

My feet are small, but not that small, Donny …

You’ve been stuffing these boots with magazines, as per my instructions, but there’s too much stuffing, ouch, that smarts …

Meanwhile Donny unpacked my jam jars …

I plucked wads of magazines from the boots, what a mess, soon no way you’d know which boots we’d tried and which we hadn’t, Donny unpacking my jam jars, wads unwadding everywhere in the Iraqi heat, magazine pages blossomed all around, I grabbed a boot and hurled it at Donny …

He set up five jam jars, working his way in, first, fifth, second, fourth, third …

In my hand was a magazine wad, I wanted to hurl it at Donny, but then it unwadded, I’d plucked it and now I was holding a fully unwadded page …

Boys’ Life, that’s what it was, it unwadded and flattened itself in my hand, an old yellowed page, How to Prepare and Mount a Fish Head on a Wooden Plaque …

It’s Boys’ Life magazine, right here in this boot, you’ve been stuffing my boots with Boys’ Life, I told Donny Rumsfeld as he sat down next to me on the beM0 GJTW0 K1CPLSB O, O POFJ45 VQ005ZR RL KEHFHLAL1KV VMET

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And not just any Boys’ Life, but a Boys’ Life from my childhood …

Fish taxidermy, or I mean fish-head taxidermy, how about that, a bucket of turpentine, some lacquer, tack the heads to the plaque, gills flaring out …

Meanwhile Donny was telling me that he remembered it too, this Boys’ Life fish-head phase …

Meanwhile I told Donny I was so proud of my fish heads, not one head but five heads mounted on five wooden plaques, whenever I brought friends into my bedroom I’d touch all five fish heads on the snout, six inches between the heads …

Meanwhile Donny was laughing because when he came

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