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When

it

's

raining

,

we

have

to

pull

the

fuses

.

You

do

n't

dare

turn

on

the

lights

.

The

house

that

Tyler

rents

,

it

has

three

stories

and

a

basement

.

We

carry

around

candles

.

It

has

pantries

and

screened

sleeping

porches

and

stained-glass

windows

on

the

stairway

landing

.

There

are

bay

windows

with

window

seats

in

the

parlor

.

The

baseboard

moldings

are

carved

and

varnished

and

eighteen

inches

high

.

The

rain

trickles

down

through

the

house

,

and

everything

wooden

swells

and

shrinks

,

and

the

nails

in

everything

wooden

,

the

floors

and

baseboards

and

window

casings

,

the

nails

inch

out

and

rust

.

Everywhere

there

are

rusted

nails

to

step

on

or

snag

your

elbow

on

,

and

there

's

only

one

bathroom

for

the

seven

bedrooms

,

and

now

there

's

a

used

condom

.

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The

house

is

waiting

for

something

,

a

zoning

change

or

a

will

to

come

out

of

probate

,

and

then

it

will

be

torn

down

.

I

asked

Tyler

how

long

he

's

been

here

,

and

he

said

about

six

weeks

.

Before

the

dawn

of

time

,

there

was

an

owner

who

collected

lifetime

stacks

of

the

National

Geographic

and

Reader

's

Digest

.

Big

teetering

stacks

of

magazines

that

get

taller

every

time

it

rains

.

Tyler

says

the

last

tenant

used

to

fold

the

glossy

magazine

pages

for

cocaine

envelopes

.

There

's

no

lock

on

the

front

door

from

when

police

or

whoever

kicked

in

the

door

.

There

's

nine

layers

of

wallpaper

swelling

on

the

dining-room

walls

,

flowers

under

stripes

under

flowers

under

birds

under

grasscloth

.

Our

only

neighbors

are

a

closed

machine

shop

and

across

the

street

,

a

blocklong

warehouse

.

Inside

the

house

,

there

's

a

closet

with

sevenfoot

rollers

for

rolling

up

damask

tablecloths

so

they

never

have

to

be

creased

.

There

's

a

cedarlined

,

refrigerated

fur

closet

.

The

tile

in

the

bathroom

is

painted

with

little

flowers

nicer

than

most

everybody

's

wedding

china

,

and

there

's

a

used

condom

in

the

toilet

.

I

've

been

living

with

Tyler

about

a

month

.

I

am

Joe

's

White

Knuckles

.

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How

could

Tyler

not

fall

for

that

.

The

night

before

last

,

Tyler

sat

up

alone

,

splicing

sex

organs

into

Snow

White

.

How

could

I

compete

for

Tyler

's

attention

.

I

am

Joe

's

Enraged

,

Inflamed

Sense

of

Rejection

.

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