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Sole Mate

watching my three-year-old self

By Richard SeltzerPublished 3 years ago 1 min read
Sole Mate
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Now that I don't

have a wife,

I take my soul for

walks to the beach,

where I read and

write

while he chases

minnows and gulls

like the

three-year-old

who once was me.

heartbreak

About the Creator

Richard Seltzer

Richard now writes fulltime. He used to publish public domain ebooks and worked for Digital Equipment as "Internet Evangelist." He graduated from Yale where he had creative writing courses with Robert Penn Warren and Joseph Heller.

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