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in a torrent of bullets.
So it appears one of our big questions is, was she a war poet?
Does she speak for a nation?
The Dickinsons are at a funeral for Mama Dickinsons sister, Lavinia (Vinnies namesake).
Even the pastor (priest?
Hope is a … bird?
Hope is a … tweet?
Em leaves the funeral with hope is a TBD in her brain.
We havesomuch to catch up on, she says, but Death isnt really in the mood.
As Bo Burnham once sang, Death reports, I feel like shit.
War has taken all the FUN out of deciding who dies and how.
Now its just gangrene and more gangrene, ugh.
How does Em stay inspired when her life is so boring?
Like, no offense, but her life is just endless repetition and drudgery and overwhelming lameness.
Hope, which is a bird or something.
But she believes poetry can be even more powerful than Death.
Back at the Dickinson house, Austin is MIA.
I have enjoyed Austins arc so much.
Sue is VERY pregnant.
Sue says she needs to rest.
Really, what Sue needs is some sensual handholding.
Em is the only one of the two of them clinging to reality.
You are having my brothers baby, she says, which, duh!
Sue: So what?
That doesnt change anything.
I feel like that does, in fact, change everything.
Sue dreams of a world where a baby can have two mothers.
Em reminds Sue, coolly, that she never wanted kids.
My poems are my children.
None of Aunt Lavinias friends even show up to this goyim shiva situation.
Ems friends do, but its because she told them there would be scones.
(We get confirmation of life later in the episode, so hes okay, at least for now!
Keep Henry in those thoughts and prayers, everybody.)
Yeah, thats better.
Good to see Jane again, who thinks her deep-mourning phase is over.
(Still, he is a devoted godfather to her baby, which is cute!
Sorry Im a bad influence, but I am rooting for these two.)
That evening, the Dickinson family dinner gets real heated.
Papa Dickinson gives a toast that completely ignores Lavinia.
My MARRIAGE is a lie but you know that, dont you Emily?
Austins breakdown is valid, if I may say so.
He calls his father pathetic, and his father responds by having a heart attack.
Austin drunkenly sings the national anthem and announces he is seceding from this family.
The Hope bird flits around the room.
Still alive, like the rest of them.
