calling home.

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Dog Death. Text Clutter.

texts from my mother, to my mother Ashley Kim

Several voice recordings entitled

bark 2

teddy growl

teddy whimper 2

She wants them all, surprisingly.

A three-second video of the dead dog shaking after his bath.

Limp string fur. Black eyes surrounded by dark brown cakey eye mucus.

An old over-stuffed bookcase. Mousy brown carpet that needs replacing.

She wants that, too.

A link to a Coach Outlet embroidered daisy bag on sale.

Get it.

I’ll pay for it, she replies.

Office hours for symbolic logic from 5-8 today, I tell her unceremoniously.

I will probably eat dinner upstairs while studying. Cool, she replies.

We haven’t cooked for a week.

Safeway softened eggplant and leafy yang baechu wilts in the fridge.


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