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| ***BIO*** David LaBounty's recent work has appeared in Night Train, the New Plains Review, Unlikely 2.0, Word Riot and others. His third novel, Affluenza - a tale about debt, pornography, vanity, lust, consumerism and pyromania told through the financial rise and fall of an insurance executive who lives beyond his means - will be published in the summer of 2009. |
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| life is lived waiting in line, to buy and die |
| by David Labounty |
| she tells me
she’s 55, as if that explains her minivan, her pierced nose, her makeup, thick shiny and white like a hard boiled egg just peeled, as if 55 makes her sigh long and heavy about being a grandmother again and again. |
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| July 2009 |
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