Sebastian Malloy

Bookmark Confession

I wrote on a small slip of paper:

I want to save everyone else because I don’t know how to save myself.

Then I put the paper between the pages of a book of poems by Richard Brautigan, at the library, which hasn’t been checked out since September 14, 1984.

In another forty years, my confession will be a bookmark, so the person checking out the book can remember to read the poem on that page to the person they love most in the world.

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