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Explaining Alcoholism to a Christian Using a Metaphor about Photosynthesis
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‘Lightning Bugs’ by August Kleinzahler
A cruel word at eventide and night zips up like a spider’s retreat. Go back to your febrile needlework. We shall not be chasing lightning bugs in the tall grass tonight. Put the whiskey on the shelf and let us speak calmly of money. Source: Kleinzahler, August. Live from the Hong Kong Nile…
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One Long Fucking Question for Michael Robbins
What I’ve learned about long walks of course Was taught by the whiskers of a reservation man Lashing a horse Sterile tracts of pale kentucky blue grey shale Don’t take them Or take them seldom by mail Stretching out like a dying dog between The pickets and Queen Anne For a loss They can’t Be…
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