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Lately—who knows why—I’ve been a teensy bit preoccupied with air disasters. Last month I stumbled upon full episodes of Mayday, Air Crash Investigation, Air Emergency, Air Disasters, and Seconds From Disaster on YouTube, and I’m still working my way through. This, weeks before I’ll take my first flight in years to see some of you fine people at the AWP conference.
It’s not about fear; it’s fascination. Continue Reading
If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.
-Charles Bukowski
She was the morbidly obese, middle-aged lady living in the downstairs apartment of the rental house we shared. “My appendix almost burst,” she said by way of a greeting one day as I climbed the front porch stairs to find her hunkered down in a creaking lawn chair, the word SUGAR stretching in a sparkly silver distortion across the chest of her pink sweat suit. Continue Reading
“You ready to do this?” Carl said, sitting up in his hospital bed, as I delivered a water jug from my trolley. He had a face only seen in the portraits of civil war veterans: leathered, cross-hatched skin stretched over the skull and eyes like smudges. The unkempt calico beard that crawled down his neck was interrupted by an ancient burn scar. Continue Reading
The words are harder to dodge
than his left hook would be:
Hit me, come on pussy, hit me!
Players at the other end of the court
stop dribbling & form a ring Continue Reading
May 15, 1856: The would-be birthday of American author L. Frank Baum, the wonderful wizard behind Oz.
"I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.”
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