Tag Archives: social commentary

list

Some friends of ours call the breakfast table recitation of ills an organ recital. As we age there are other lists with generic names: who’s dead who’s dying who’s sick who’s taking these medications who’s taking those who’s going down … Continue reading

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interior

He blinks his eyes as if to change the channel nothing changes he is still surrounded by rubble buildings tossed as if by those malicious kids next door lying broken like their slaughtered toy soldiers The end of a transmission … Continue reading

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odd

No hydro line went into the old farmhouse a sister and two brothers lived alone they farmed by horsepower and they never painted the hard frame house the colour of dried bones. Year by year they farmed into their nineties … Continue reading

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