Staring Into the Void of a Five-Dollar Egg White - Electric Literature

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Staring Into the Void of a Five-Dollar Egg White - Electric Literature

The Human Condition as It Applies to the Long Island Suburbs Every year, I grow moretired of paying for things.The albumen in my cocktailadds five dollars - five dollarsfor not even a full egg.The math reminds me that Icould pay to walk insidea historic fort in Augusta,or stand outside it for freeand relive history as oneof the Wabanaki people.Unfriendly neighborsrun deep through history.I should not be surprisedby the raging womanwho tells me t…