Sadly Beautiful
By Jason Fisk
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JASON FISK is a husband to one, a father of two (soon to be three), and a teacher to many. He lives and teaches in the suburbs of Chicago. His long list of employment before he became a teacher includes working as a mental health professional in a psychiatric unit, a driller of holes in a kitchen cabinet making factory, and a grunt for a bricklayer.
He is the author of Hank and Jules, of a collection of short stories published by Kill the Middleman Press; Salt Creek Anthology, a collection of micro-fiction published by Chicago Center for Literature and Photography; the fierce crackle of fragile wings, a collection of poetry published by Six Gallery Press; as well as two poetry chapbooks - The Sagging: Spirits and Skin, and Decay, both published by Propaganda Press.
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Sadly Beautiful - Jason Fisk
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I think the best place to start would be with Abby falling in love with Jeremy in Minnesota. Jeremy was a musician and a genuinely good guy. He loved the music scene in Tucson, Arizona. He loved listening to Calexico and Howe Gelb, so he and Abby visited that desert town. This was right before my wife and I got married in a suburb of Chicago. After my wife and I got married, Abby and Jeremy moved from Minneapolis to Tucson. They were both game for an adventure, and the move suited them. It made me feel far, far away from her, though.
Growing up, Abby and I were the best of friends. We moved around a lot. And when you move around a lot, you frequently become dependant on your siblings as your main source of friendship. I really missed her since she moved down there. I know we were already far away with me living in Chicago and her in Minneapolis, but the distance between Tucson and Chicago seemed almost insurmountable. The only way to get there would be to plan and fly down for a visit. There would never be spontaneous weekend car trips to Tucson. I planned to visit over Christmas just over a year after they had moved there. I found the following poem that I wrote in the airplane on the way home from that weeklong