Turns Out I'm an Entire Person! - Los Angeles Weekly Times

Turns Out I'm an Entire Person! - Los Angeles Weekly Times

Turns Out I’m an Entire Person! The Beginning of the End My mother lost her baby and my father lost his leg. So I tried to be her baby and I tried to be his leg. On both counts, I failed.  “You’re not a very good baby,” my mother said suspiciously. “You’re practically dead, you’re so old.” “You’re not a very good leg either,” my father said. “On account of the fact that you’re an entire person, and not a leg.” Still I tried. I let my mother spo…

Turns Out I'm an Entire Person! - Electric Literature

The Beginning of the EndMy mother lost her baby and my father lost his leg. So I tried to be her baby and I tried to be his leg. On both counts, I failed. “You’re not a very good baby,” my mother said suspiciously. “You’re practically dead, you’re so old.”“You’re not a very good leg either,” my father said. “On account of the fact that you’re an entire person, and not a leg.”Still I tried. I let my mother spoon-feed me. I let her buy me Bibles a…