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EPILOGUE:
Cruising at full speed, about 60 mph, safely under the limit, the blue van, lightly rattling,
ushered us into Dallas. I remembered something in the glovebox - a picture - that I'd intended to
show Spectre.
"Yo, man," I said. He held a dusty baggie in one hand and was sniffing his knife.
"Hmmpt," he grunted, pressing a finger over his nostril. I completely lost my train of
thought: Knife. Glove. Van. Alley. Show. Girlfriend. Movie. Salt. Picture. Yellow. Parting.
Fireworks. Finger. Polka. Death. A crib. Grandfather. Smoke. Sniffing. Wife. Four-wheel dolly. I
taste the meth draining down my throat, like crawling ooze, into my stomach. Love rhymes with
gloves- warmth. Forever. Ornaments. Hands. Speed. Freckles. Sneezing. Fear. Nose. Cars.
Babies. Cold. Ghosts. Ex-wife. Lungs. New Year's Eve. Driving. Spectre. Remember something.
What? What?
"What," asked Spectre, looking at me. The blue van's interior and the blur of images in
front of the city buildings and night sky moving in the passenger's side window behind him fell
into place around his shoulders and head. His dark goatee looked like leather straps muzzling his
mouth. I looked back to the road and swerved back into my own lane.
"What were you gonna say, dog," he asked. I became aware of my surroundings. The
thing that I had reminded myself to remember got lost in the confusion of everything else. "Go,
dog," he prompted, pronouncing the sounds of an alphabetical palindrome sequence. That was all
it took. We were instantly in palindrome mode.
"Bore Rob," I asked.
"No, Don," he responded.
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McConnell, Michael Constantine. Outer Reaches of the Palindrome, thesis, December 2003; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4407/m1/4/: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .