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For Mr Pinsky on His Birthday
With "Moonlight in Vermont" on the radio (you were right: No rhymes) I think of you, a true blue Libra if ever I knew one, And I am happy to know that today you're…
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“Late, Late Show” [by John Koethe]
I never read John O’Hara’s stories, but having read themNow they all seem pretty much alike. There’s a lot ofBackground and a few remarks before not very much happensAnd the story ends, and apparently…
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Kim Roberts: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
Kim Roberts (photo, Art Omi, Oct 2019) _______________________________________________________________________________________ Double Indemnity No, not insurance. What I meant to say was “double identity,” …
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“Psalm and Lament for Los Angeles” [by Dana Gioia]
1 On the streets of Hawthorne I sat down and wept.Yes, wept as I remembered it. I came to the asphalt country of my childhood,To revisit the precincts of memory. I walked the old…
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“Mary McCarthy” [by Mary Maxwell]
To the very end of Cape Cod the refugees have arrived, shipwreckedheroes out of Homer. But even Helen was an exile of sorts, pointing outher noble countrymen to Priam from the stone barricades. Alternating…
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from “Grand & Ogden Auto Parts” (by Mitch Sisskind)
'Send your sick animals to me' Kim and I (but she was Marilyn Novak then) We smelt fished at Belmont Harbor one April As the restriction allowed but seeing as how Smelt only ran…
