For the Love of Meat: Nine Illustrated Stories by Jenny Jaeckel

Author:Jenny Jaeckel [Jaeckel, Jenny]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-1-941203-16-3
Publisher: Raincloud Press

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That little girl

With the daisy chain in her hair

And stars in her eyes

That laugh like a kite flying

Higher and higher

I know she’s flying now

To someplace like tomorrow

Like tomorrow, like the road

Like the mountain

I know she’s going there

Like I knew yesterday

That little girl

Of the daisy chains

The stars

That little girl

* * *

Rita was trying for sophisticated and grown-up, with a cigarette poised in two fingers by her cheek, and he practically had her crying like an honest-to-God baby. And for some reason, she was about to cry now.

Jack turned and smiled as she came up, that grin that showed all his teeth.

“Hiya, Kid.” He always called her that.

“Off work already?” Rita asked, even though she knew he was always off by three at the latest. The boats went out so early.

“Oh yeah,” Jack said. “How’s B-town?”

“It’s all right,” Rita shrugged. She plopped down on a drift log. “I’m beat.”

He sat down beside her. Her eyes started spilling over, she couldn’t help it. She hoped Jack wouldn’t notice, but he did.

“Hey,” he said, “what’s up?”

She shook her head.

“What’s his name? Kirk?”

Rita laughed despite herself and wiped at her tears.

“He’s history,” she said. Jack nodded. He looked back out at the bay.

“It’s nothing really,” she said after a while, “or it’s everything, but it’s not.” She didn’t know what the heck to say.

“Rough waters?” asked Jack. She guessed so. “Well,” he said, “sometimes you just have to ride it out.”

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