The Kept Become Keepers
# The Kept Become Keepers
You will not be able to find the evening it happened, so do not spend a season looking, because the turn from kept to keeper is the one graduation that never scheduled itself, never printed a program, and never asked anybody to stand and say a word. There was no test. There was no fee. Nothing was slid across a table for you to take possession of, because nothing was ever held still long enough to become yours — the street just kept you, the way streets keep, with windows up and steps spliced and corners held against the ice, and somewhere in the middle of an errand you will not even remember running, you will look down the block, see a dark window, and find that your feet have already chosen the way over. That is the whole ceremony. The kept do not decide to become keepers. They discover it in the feet. Warmth that arrives in a person does not stay parked in t…
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