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Every time I start writing something about the US election, I stop myself. More than enough has been said about it, and I don’t have anything to offer beyond emphasis; some analysis rings true to me, some is spurious, a depressing amount is delusional. It’s whatever. I’ve
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedImpressions: Park at night Are the planets always in a line like that? Indifferent dogs alone in the road? Tankless, with broken bowls? Hmph. Different forms of behavior are fun da men tal to their nature. A tiny blond ha
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One of Carson Cistulli’s old poems describes time travel in its “cheapest, most efficient form” like waiting for a sharply hit ground-ball rather than charging it, and rushing the play. Invoking baseball’s “long, long season” in the same breath as he describes a particular approach to one of
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The Rat Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedI want to achieve unimaginable fame. I see no downside to celebrity, & don’t buy the gripes. I’d still dream of my body buckling under its bottom rib. The sun would still blight the slope of
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Afternoon Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedIn the plane of the window there’s a still field of sheep and wind stirring only the top of the only tree. The afternoon mild, an ice cube cracking in a glass of water and lemon. Summer thunderstorms
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It’s a Friday, and the vibe is weird. Some thoughts as I sit and wait for a mattress to be delivered: Luka Dončić and Kyrie Irving are asymmetrical basketball players: Irving adding flourishes of an arabesque to his every movement, adding a dramatic flair to even a barely contested
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Milad Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedOne nervous night a woman darkened in her hat, her voice like coldwet grass, sticks in the backyard told me, get a haircut. I burned, tracing heroic names in the familiar rough sofa embrace of desire, while Frank talked
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Casket of blankets Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedI must have seen myself in the glass. A comet flare, bouquet of beggars. Jackie’s unseen, opens like a cat opens the toilet door. Penny sips, heavy-eyed in her hour of pain, photoshops this curve, breathes
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After writing my last blog, I noticed that I lost a few subscribers. I’ve made no secret of my support for the liberation of Palestine, which is a contentious stance in some circles, so the dip in my already modest numbers was unsurprising, and of course everybody is free
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Like many millennial Americans on the left today, I can point to the election of Donald Trump in 2016 as the moment that began my political awakening. My relationship to politics before that was anodyne and unremarkable: I grew up in a liberal, middle class household in a Boston suburb,
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The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul. Not drowned entirely, though. Rather carried down alive to wondrous depths, where strange shapes of the unwarped primal world glided to and fro before his passive eyes; and the miser-merman, Wisdom, revealed his hoarded
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Absalom, Absalom! Chapters 5 - 7