Excerpt from 'On deciding abstinence'
By Sarah Brook


IV.

At the Ferris wheel top, you turn and set my hand over the lump
in your jeans pocket. It has come to this. You ignore the sky
and what it asks. And I shudder with the heaviness of entitlement, ownership,
how these words pile up like dusty quilts and settle in with complacency.

Sarah Brook is currently pursuing a masters degree in School Counseling at Loyola University-Chicago. She received her B.S. in Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her work has appeared in Chicken Soup for the Soul and Volume 1.2 of Prick of the Spindle.

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