Dancing begins when women are brave. A man can almost never begin the dancing. Women dancing alone, or with one friend, might be weird or need to claim they are drunk, but men dancing alone have to be drag queens or rock stars. Ideally, two or three women will begin the dancing. One woman dancing […]
Read More Dance LessonsI believe in Charles Dickens Christmas. Magnificent capitalist Christmas is fun, too. I like spending outrageous sums of money once a year. It’s exciting. Sometimes I even believe in Jesus Christmas. Charles Dickens Christmas is “mankind is my business” and drinks for everyone. It’s also Scrooge, wonderful Scrooge, so bitter and angry and not giving […]
Read More Dickens, Capitalism, and JesusIt was almost sunset when I got my coffee. And the first time I looked up, it was so dark out, it was like I’d been buried alive. It was 5:30. What happened? That afternoon, as it got closer to writing time, my brain got cranky. This is how it will always be. No one […]
Read More DarkBlank fruit slices and the red-brimmed hat, cow on her way to slaughter, and she smells buds and grapes and blossoms. The cow knows the man needs and the needs of the cow are care. The cow will be cared for and the man, fed. The cow knows she used to be milk and touched […]
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