WHAT I LOOK LIKE
I'm very tall and very skinny. I look like some sort of twig creature.
When I stretch out my arms, I look like a cross.
I look like I might evaporate at any moment.
I look like one of those huge towering light poles that shine down over freeways.
When I stand very straight, with my hands down by his sides, I look like a long white joint.
I look like a scepter.
I look like Stretch Armstrong when he's fully stretched.
I look like a marathon runner.
I look like a shadow when the sun is setting.
I look like a skyscraper.
I look like a narrow sliver of light at the end of a dusky and interminable hallway.
I'm very tall and very skinny.
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chris dankland lives in Houston, Texas. he has published stories in have u seen my whale?, press board press, and has several other pieces forthcoming. he blogs at dankland.blogspot.com, and loves to talk to strangers on facebook: http://www.facebook.