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Buying Time
You can buy time online now, who knew? Arriving on my birthday, I unpack it, watch it, touch it, sleep on it, re-re-read the Proto-Germanic users…
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The Hug
Holy shit, him here he comes, he wants to hug, heaven help me, arms flung wide, wings of a raptor. Behold incipience blowsily bloom to denouement like a…
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Happiness at the Door
I intercepted happiness at the door: We’re booked solid, je suis désolé! beside myself. We do so cherish your lively patronage....any other day. Crises…
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T.S. Eliot (a remembrance)
Before there was a Springsteen T.S. Eliot was The Boss. We tried to understand him till our eyes would not uncross. When T. was young he etherized…
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Metamorphosis
ohohohwonderfulwonderfulwow pleasepleaseplease Yearning with every bone in her skeleton (it looks like yearning, but how would we know?) tapdancing on…
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The Procrastinator
The cheek, in need of a shave, reclines in the palm of a hand propped by a forearm whose elbow stands on the easy chair arm. Meanwhile, arm two…
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My Mother Demonstrates How to Coil a Rope
Pick an end. Lay it across the U between thumb and forefinger. Make a fist. Crook your arm to a capital L like Rosie the Riveter. Run the rope under…
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Otezla
In a word copacetic: not a cloud in the sky not a care in the world. Four winsome twenty-somethings on a seacoast road in a yellow Mini Cooper top-down…
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Seventh Inning Stretch
The fan-cam gloms on a kid in the stands nonchalantly twerking to the Dropkick Murphys' punk rock Tessie. Boston we love you madly He stops. He groks…
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My Father's Tomatoes
A good tomato could transform him into a rank sensualist. * * *. Elderly Professor N. luuuhhhvvvvvved his DIY tomatoes. He got all but emotional on the…
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The Scribe
At the mouth of the Dneiper, a blustery day. A fat old man in a pink caftan with a wonderful rat's tail mustache, – Taras Bulba – stands at one end of a…
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The Mosaics at Villa Romana del Casale
All and only dirt! the tipsy dominus declaims, dirt and its children. Dirt to fodder for liveststock and slaves, to forests for sills and roof-beams, to…
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