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“My father, / lymph node masses fading from / his x-rays, said surviving one thing / means another comes and kills you. / He’s dead, and so, I trust him.” —John Murillo, “On Confessionalism” @commonmag.bsky.social @fourwaybooks.bsky.social www.thecommononline.org/on-confessio...
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On Confessionalism
JOHN MURILLO <br> I’m standing / in a section 8 apartment parking lot, / pistol cocked, and staring down / at this man, then up into the mug / of an old woman staring, watering / the single sad flowe...