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    That Ship Has Sailed
    That Ship Has Sailed
    That Ship Has Sailed
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    That Ship Has Sailed

    By Terence Winch

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of Pittsburgh Press
    Release dateFeb 14, 2023
    ISBN9780822989875
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      That Ship Has Sailed - Terence Winch

      PART I

      OLD LIFE

      THAT SHIP HAS SAILED

      In our old life, we ate ice cream and bread

      pudding. We drank glass after glass of

      Grand Marnier until it made us sick.

      Our libido was as big as a billboard.

      Our libido was larger than a drive-in

      theater screen in the middle of nowhere

      playing endless adolescent pornographic

      classics. We had an appetite for appetite.

      We poured melted lard all over our

      popcorn which we then covered

      with a snowstorm of salt. We smoked,

      we snorted, we cavorted with people

      who were best left alone. We talked

      all fucking night on the phone. We read

      Keats and Yeats and all the greats

      day and night. We got into fights

      in pubs. We drank sixteen cups

      of coffee every day. We called in sick

      and spent the day in mysteries, doubts,

      uncertainties. We shirked our

      responsibilities without a second

      thought. We ate Chinese food

      and pizza for breakfast. We rode

      the bus to visit friends wherever

      they might be. We stole books.

      We cheated, we lied, we cried.

      We danced all night in the living

      room around the Christmas tree.

      In our new life, we try to remember

      the names of the people we think

      we might have slept with. We haul

      the bags of frozen broccoli out

      of the freezer. We light a candle

      to commemorate crossing

      the great divide between

      the green island of the young

      and the songs in our bones

      that have come unsung.

      PREAMBLE

      We the people do not like fish.

      How many times do we have to tell you that?

      We the people form perfect smoke rings

      puffed out in perfect rhythm. We the people

      in order to establish boundaries, need

      for you to back off, dude. When we sit down,

      we sit down for a purpose. But when we get

      up, everybody else seems to be sitting.

      A guy named Bill was just here to borrow

      money, but we told him we would provide

      him with no coin. Because we are the people

      who make the rules on land and water.

      Even the skies are not safe from us.

      Sometimes we are required to go out

      and discipline our inferiors. We provide

      and maintain a freezer full of ice cream

      and sausages. No person shall be eligible

      to seize our cans of Reddi-wip, nor shall

      any person deprive us of two-thirds

      of the coats that hang in the closet.

      We shall meet with you at noon

      on the 17th day of December

      in front of Whole Foods. Good luck

      finding a parking space. Do not belittle

      us ex post facto. We the people are

      on the loose and coming for you.

      A WOMAN WHO MURDERED HER HUSBAND

      A woman who murdered her husband

      once lived in my house

      for several weeks.

      She was from the West Indies.

      This was

      a long time ago.

      But I still remember

      how sweet she was,

      always smiling.

      One of my housemates at the time

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