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Some things/  /April 04, 2010

  • A coffeebean bag that is red.
  • A small, three-footed cat called Socks. It's got four legs but only three socks.
  • Earthclods, stuck to the shoes.
  • Gauzy curtains, leaking light.
  • Broken earphones
  • A nice white bench
  • So passionate but cannot be happy with.
  • So happy with you but cannot be passionate.
  • Flecks of cardboard where the mailer came open.
  • Is this what Kundera wanted me to know, when he couldn't get my attention?
  • Siri says Gatsby's glasses are elements of light, and the airy girls who float round rooms, they indicate money. And the heavy men, they cause the tragedy.
  • Robert Hass says, "consoling angels." De Botton offers The Consolations of Philosophy.
  • Rotini with mozzarella. Really. But are we even hungry anymore?

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