Difficult to Say

by Navin R. Johnson

Marie, are you awake? Good. You look so beautiful and peaceful - you almost look dead. And I'm glad because there's something I want to say that's always been very difficult for me to say: I slit the sheet the sheet I slit and on the slitted sheet I sit. I've never been relaxed enough around anyone to be able to say that - you give me confidence in myself. I know we've only known each other for four weeks and three days, but to me it seems like nine weeks and five days.

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Navin R. Johnson is the adopted white son of African American sharecroppers.