Monthly Archives: September 2007

Waiting for the elephant

The evening falls dream slowly over the neighbourhood like a fleece blanket lofted by a mother over her feverish child. We sit, inhaling clatter of far off street traffic through banks of tall maples crowding the edges of the back … Continue reading

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Waiting at the CAT scan lab

Some wit asked me if I was having my cat scanned, and that kind of pissed me off because he stole my line. How does he know whether I have cats? He goes in for his scan. They give me … Continue reading

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