Yearly Archives: 2007

Leaving

They didn’t really shovel earth onto the gleaming wood and brass, but they might as well; they lowered it through plastic turf that’s supposed to pass as grass and I guess they slowly tolled a bell; and I can’t just … Continue reading

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Bedtime story (continued)

But that was all right, because they were adults who, of course, knew what to do. (that’s a paradox, kiddies— tell a nearby adult what it means.) Meanwhile, back inside the house, Grandmother and grandfather were cackling like fried chicken … Continue reading

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perspective

We are too clean the engaged appendix erupts because it is under-worked by our too clean world This explains how someone living in a mud hut can go a lifetime without medicare Who would have thought all those years ago … Continue reading

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