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    “Pop? What’s wrong? Are you okay? Is Momma okay?”

    “We’re okay,” Poppy says. “We’re not hurt. It’s just…”

    “What, Poppy?” he says, and he has a bad, bad feeling. This is the moment of potential energy, the apex of the swing. The moment before the crest of a wave becomes a barrel, before an egg cracks, before an empire falls. This is the insulation in the very walls around him biting its tongue alongside him. That psalm the universe sings has reached a measure of rests— a caesura, breathe. He can’t.

    “Harley, it’s… it’s Daddy,” she says. “He’s dyin’.”

    Harley drops the phone.

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