Couplet

Excerpt from a Manuscript in Progress

by Stuart Dybek

Let’s meet in the Loop.

Come in on the train that only approximates time, with a woman’s magazine you’ll leave behind on the seat you had all to your own. Instead of reading, you’ll say you rode to a song in your mind. (“Night and Day” or maybe “My Funny Valentine.”)

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