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The Contents of Lincoln's Pockets

from A Better Version of Me by Rainer Maria

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At the time of his assassination: Two pairs of spectacles, a lens polisher, a pocket knife, a watch fob, a linen handkerchief, a brown leather wallet containing five dollars in confederate money and nine newspaper clippings. That there is Walt Whitman’s pen. It sat in his hand and drank ink and Whitman lay upstairs and watched the trains, fascinated by the big engines. Me, I’m just anxious. Lincoln struck at the back of the head as if by a velvet curtain. His body lists and folds, creased at the hip, and rolls to the floor beside his shoes. The light’s gone out, but even now he’s radiating heat. These relics rise like steam and each disseminates, encircling like a halo down. Trajectory of a common crowd, simmering. Slammed to the back of your head. You’ve never been hit before. How can you deal with that kind of information? Slammed to your chest, like a curtain hits the floor. How can you deal with that kind of information?

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from A Better Version of Me, released January 23, 2001

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