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from (Opera) Asylum 1. ______Here is the proof, ____________everything about me. I couldn’t stop thinking ___________about myself as him, so the revelatory parts of me _____like confetti undropped grew dusty and apologetic. “It isn’t enough _____to tell you any more.” ____________* _____“I’d like to think myself _____a generation who stayed married.” Back here, while walking past the foreign languages, my daily discussion with the parrot behind me, _____above all I am unaware who is trying to help. ____________* _____Given an infinity to write this, ___________you might. On courage: so much is trial and error. _____To adapt though, to take the raw materials _____of predestination and refine to a convenient last name. _____Once, my father _____said something accidentally better than any he ever thought. ____________* _____The closest I get to being alone an unanswered phone, _____the showers even crowded. _____Nancy the butcherbird changes _____the sheets and rallies discrete with nicknames and [...]