\t\t\t\tThat was a cheerful, sterile school reunion fund raiser.\u00a0 The successful and braggadocio show up at these events. I am not cheerful nor sterile nor braggadocio but I wanted to know what happened to Runs. Runs’ name rose up, tucked in a corner of the last alumni magazine, as deceased. I knew Runs from Grade 3 to launch. I thought he was in a body cast (that’s an inside grade school joke) but when I saw his name leap decades ahead\u00a0 (class of 1986) among deceased alumni from the 1940s and 1950s I wanted to learn what I could. He offed himself. I remember Runs as pointedly and helplessly angry. From childhood. In grade school he lied like any child might, making up bullshit stories, but he took the disbelief to his mine. I remember how his left eyeball quivered and his eyelids sunk in disdain when the classroom cackled with disbelief at his “body cast” lies.<\/p>\n
In high school he jumped and shouted from the benches, laughing with a vengeance, dark and lively, kicking.<\/p>\n
I felt out of place tonight, among the near-celebrities and the priests, but as I think about the dead I think only of the body, the heavy corpse, the once-writhing grins.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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