Parade

The Mermaid Parade was nice, the ride there was nicer.  A female “sailor” with a “mustache” was standing next to a cooler, and what would probably become a tail.  We got on the D train, and a guy asked us if anyone was going to Coney Island.  Yes, I said.  What is it like, he […]

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Yours

Today a kid asked me what my religion was, I used to dodge that question, today I just told him.  I don’t know why. Episcopalian.  I mean Christian.  Episcopalian.  Did you, like, grow up in the church?  Yeah.  My family’s very religious.  He’s Catholic.  Other kid nodded.  He’s Catholic.  I’m nothing.  I mean, I’m a […]

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Kansas

You, technicolor, have no fears. You, in lights, the water is invitation to Europe, Europe, who now comes to you, not bashful at all, you are, Europe comes to you. The thunder doesn’t make anyone look up, like rabbits, or wonder where the cat carrier is. Back home it means fearful times of tiny footprints […]

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Collective Unconscious

This was my favorite show in a long time.   First, laboratory glassware with the ink ghosts of crowds living in it.  A whole laboratory’s worth.  I used to teach at a school with a great old chemistry lab, and stripped and punched and crumbled as the whole building was, the wood cabinets and the […]

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