between: Mr. Liebzig seemed unaware that as he rolled his pen between thumb and finger (and I swear this memory has the kind of visual detail that would allow me to pick his fingerprint out of a lineup of thumbs, were he ever to commit a crime more serious than teaching ‘hamlet’) there was a kind of venetian blind effect on the world behind him.  what I mean is everything, classroom, podium, trashcan, thermostat, blackboard, electrical outlet, ugly ant-red carpet, was divided into even strips, vertical, and turned, open, closing, as the pen torqued in absent minded.  what was behind was star studded space and a far off sun in permanent eclipse, ring of fire for constellation lions.  a kind of fourth dimension between confetti strips of ours, because I was flattened to and shuttering.  between paper shaded blinded world is other that is space lovely of connection, metaphor, between sign posts is a landscape, escape, associated self created stitching between you see, which is what he was saying, straying, connotated annotated viscerated lacerated sounds like something I once heard, you know, between us, between, between

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