The Other Deepest Thing

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The Other Deepest Thing
I don't want to write

I don't want to write

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John Ray
May 17, 2022
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I’I don’t want to write. 

The thought of writing feels like pulling the pin on a grenade. I can’t control the explosion. I can’t control the pain that rushes in not only because of the one precious loss, but all the loss. 

I want desperately to have written. To have come to the place where somehow these words on this page assuage the deep grief, the burni…

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