Maybe I’m just the fish David spoke of in jest who asks other fish how the water is today but is met with empty eyes. I too grow old but I don’t even wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. and my hair keeps growing in the tomb. The nightingale won’t sing for me—enraged, I […]
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Buildings collapsing all around me, my apartment swaying back and forth at weird angles, and when the earth stops shaking, we all bear witness to a city in chaos— no power, natural gas, or phone service, everything closed, traffic jammed, emergency crews, sirens, cops and soldiers everywhere. Flights are coming and going, and I have
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How many ears perk with the passing of clumsy feet, gone to ground, hiding from the crash and crunch of passersby? A creature of asphalt and noise makes his way along a well marked trail, unaware of fidgety robins and rabbits the giddy trembling with a certain escape. Whiskers bristle and eyes stare in question.
Sliding into the reclining chair, I notice Animal Planet on the ceiling-mounted television. Some man wielding a tranquilizer gun has taken down an Alaskan bull moose. I’m almost drawn in, but the hygienist, garbed in germless gloves and goggles politely requests I open wide so she can descend down my masticating mineshaft to scrape, sandblast,
Three of us, one black, one white, and one biracial, attended the November 21, 2018 released film, Green Book. This film is a comedy/drama based on a true story in which a working-class Italian-American bouncer, Tony Lip, becomes the driver of an African-American classical pianist, Dr. Don Shirley, on a tour of venues through the
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Stan Lee died. I knit a hat of Handmaid-red wool yarn, $36 a skein, then ripped it all out when I dropped a stitch. I learned that 3 billion people live in Extreme Poverty. Like the rest of America, I watched the video of the bear cub falling down a mountain–end up getting hurt–when the