December 2011
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Top 12 things I'd like to see in 2012
Here are some things I’d like to see this year. And if not this year, then sometime soon, I hope.
Compostable produce stickers and/or paper-recyclable staples;
Abolition of marriage as a state institution. Why does anyone care who’s marrying whom? And why does the government have any say in what a marriage is or isn’t?
Eradication of bedbugs. Don’t you miss sleeping on...
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Santa Magic →
I worked for a few years at a fancy schmancy private school on Long Island. Part of my job was to watch the kids who got dropped off by bus before the start of the school day. The kids gathered in the library, all groggy and backpack-laden. They segregated themselves along class boundaries: preschoolers by the front desk; 2nd graders in the right hand corner, studiously drawing; 5th graders in...
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psssssssssst
… the days are already getting longer.
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This came to me in a migraine
In one headached night
Three dozen and a half
halfling, half-breed poems press through me-
Punctuated by whistles of runaway trains,
I’d like to tie this muse to the tracks.
By me, last night, as I was trying to fall asleep.