Stan
Gabrielle DeMarre
There is a duo-tone picture of you on a plastic mug that sits on a shelf in my parents’ house. You’re wearing a coon-skin hat, which makes you look even more like a Waltons cameo than you already do with your ZZ Top beard. I remember you sitting in a chair at your kitchen table, insisting that your dog is actually a turtle. You were always in that chair. I never actually saw you anywhere else until I saw you in a casket. And your body didn’t look like you—nothing like the picture on the mug—so I didn’t really believe it until I saw your chair empty.
GABRIELLE DEMARRE is a Twin Cities native who recently graduated from Concordia University, St. Paul with a degree in English. She loves words and all things related, including reading, writing, talking, and the Oxford English Dictionary.
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Language, An Actress |
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Stan |
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Song of Praise i. Him One |
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A Nursery Rhyme |
Homage to the Strange Spirits
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