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ALT 10 ALTERNATE ENDINGS by Jane Wong 1: The flattened road kill squirrel puffs back to life 2: My father never leaves and I sprout more ventricles in my heart 3: I love so richly, I spare millions of pennies in my trust 4: Rosehips bloom in January, pink jellyfish in shattering snow 5: My heart becomes a jar of wildflower honey, does not amber 6: Everyone is so well fed, they cry greasy tears 7: I sit on a balcony in a large city no one has ever heard of, watching the one I love come back to me like rewinding a tape I’ve played many times before 8: The dead ends of my hair spilt to form their own continents 9: My mother reaches the end of her patience and heaves my father’s cigarette stained armchair out the window and some college students catch it from below, grateful 10: I lift the end of the day up like a fat centipede with its legs kicking and say: look, look how much you have
ALT Happy Men There are happy men in the world I have seen them dance badly at weddings in grocery aisles thronged at sports stadiums Sometimes you find them at the bottoms of pools If you dive in they give you a thumbs up I don't know why some people hate them I don’t know how happy men stitch quilts from laughter Once I touched a happy man's belly and his skin began to glow It was snowing he put me in his sidecar and drove until the mountains gave up on us Once I saw a happy man slip out of his happiness A dozen other happy men gathered around him They made for him a hairy palanquin out of their arms Us onlookers vibrated from falling so swiftly in love Even the sky toppled into a shade of pink The happy men marched to the ocean pier Light papered their shoulders like it does with bells Sometimes to watch, to listen is a religion My favorite hymn is the way happy men sing until you cannot tell them apart