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To: Volsi Mimir who wrote (7995)	8/20/2001 4:48:36 PM
From: HG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13020

Escape Amused when she asks, is your wife Jewish? and, because it's easier, because I don't want to think, I answer yes. It's the first time. Later, a pushy man wants to know my son's birthday. Confused, I make him younger and the shift of dates feels so natural I let it stand. Then it's happening with family names, with where I work, how long, with whom--minor changes in my vita, small alterations, other lives, one variant for this person, another for that, as though I were picking out ballpoint pens or books, rummaging for keep-sakes to give away, a different self to each, each time. Months pass before I catch on too and admit I've done what I did out of caution, an attempt to screen the self, erase the scent, obscure the trail with a series of dead-ends until no one could thread a way ahead through those dense thickets back to me, reeking of fear. what did I think I had worth hiding and who was I trying to deceive? Tell me: surrounded by those casual lies fabricating with disarming aplomb, why didn't I ask whose escape I imagined I was fashioning? - MArk Halperin *Really really loved the poem, so beautifully....expressive ! Thanx for sharing. Tried looking up the author, nothing much turned up though.