A few practical tips for business travel (27th Birthday)
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The morning’s limp & pallid & feels like it’s been doing this thing for years. Practical business-travel tip #1: Avoid weather metaphors if possible. If it were a man, it’d be the kind of guy my dad worked with, over … Continue reading →
Instead of a birthday poem
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Just as from “You shall not boil a kid in its mother’s milk,” They made the many laws of kashrut, But the kid is forgotten, the milk is forgotten, and the mother is forgotten, So from “I love you” We … Continue reading →
25th Birthday
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It’s my 25th birthday & I’m out for a run along the beach of Half Moon Bay, California. Evening’s descended, the sky still hungover from the afternoon rain, the waves lumbering to their own indecipherable meter. My leg strikes the … Continue reading →
The North
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The Conversation At the End of Conversation
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The conversation at the end of conversation is a form of poetry. Con-verse-ation: Poetry spoken in company. I’m relieved to find poetry here, in part because I’m never sure when or where it exists elsewhere. How often do we find … Continue reading →
24th Birthday
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Begin in a vacuum. Or: Approximate to the wasteland six miles below you: Alaskan oceans, a picket of waterlogged air, some volcanic landmass, dark and nameless. Or, barring that: Approximate to where you are, an airplane cabin in transpacific flight … Continue reading →
Kafka on his deathbed
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The world is still tranquil. You are asleep in your apartment. You are asleep because everyone else is asleep, so late at night. That is what normal people do. End of story. And even if you were not asleep, and … Continue reading →
A Lot Like You
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“What I’m saying,” the man sitting one bar stool over was saying, “is that I’m a lot like you.” We were both, it seemed, three or four drinks too many into an idle Tuesday night, hovering languorously between the nothing … Continue reading →
Nobody Likes My Favorite Joke
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Nobody likes my favorite joke. I suppose I don’t even think it’s all that funny, or that it even makes much sense. But I like it the same way I liked the Yankees as a kid, or I drink Pabst … Continue reading →
Flat
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At first, it wasn’t so bad being flat. Don’t get me wrong — it stung like hell when it happened. And I’m pretty sure I fainted when I saw myself dimensionless, thousands of gallons of air and water and grass … Continue reading →