The Committee Weighs In | By Andrea Cohen

I tell my mother
I’ve won the Nobel Prize.

Again? she says. Which
discipline this time?

It’s a little game
we play: I pretend

I’m somebody, she
pretends she isn’t dead.


Accessed by Three Penny Review
Originally published in Three Penny Review (Fall, 2012).


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