Last time Quote by Jennifer Niven
““I sit up and scoot back and check the wall I was leaning against. There are Post-its here too, and for some reason I didn’t notice them the last time. Just two lines across, each word on a separate piece of paper. The first reads: long, last, nothing, time, there, make, was, to, a, him. The second: waters, thee, go, to, it, suits, if, the, there. I reach for the word “nothing.” I sit cross-legged and hunched over, thinking about the words. I know I’ve heard them before, though not in this order. I take the words from line one off the wall and start moving them around: Nothing was to him a long time there make last. Last a long time make there nothing was to him. There was nothing to make him last a long time. On to the second line now. I pluck “go” from the wall and place it first. “To” moves next, and so on until it reads: Go to the waters if it suits thee there.””
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Jennifer Niven
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