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History & Politicsexpand_moreI promised to return, but secretly I dreamed of staying in America.
Gresham’s law. Stupid talk chases smart talk out of circulation.
We called for the dead dog because toddlers do not understand death.
I’d make a tub of mud to keep live crabs. I’d refill it daily.
Teams spend days surveying the damage and label me a mess.
Riding back from her studio, Ivy thought, I’ll just stop for a minute.
On June 23rd, activists set up camp at New York City Hall.
You could take your pick from an array of rebellions to consider.
He wrote and rewrote endlessly, and rose at night to reread pages.
It is a city of sea, sun, boulevards, strolling beauties, life-altering food.
Some asshole on a joyride in the outback runs her down, the emu.
Logic is such an elegant weapon; and religion, such an easy target.
Children, this is what a bad dream looks like, our teacher said.
I sometimes have to laugh because even now, as a middle-aged man.
For my part, I do not want a Happy Christmas: I want a Merry Christmas.
He could see I was American, but I thought he was unlikely to harm me.
When he died earlier this year an enormous hole was left in my life.
You are with outsized footnotes that have tracked across the Internet.
It began last spring / Flowers blooming like crazy / No balm to our fear
On a jet stream, unearthly, air can travel at hundreds of miles per hour.
Loss. That word echoed in my ears as my eyes ranged around the garden.
The Bengalis negotiate their space with corrupt politicians and landsharks.
Indifferent day. Sparrow fretting for rain gathers grass and seeds.
Eating a raw oyster is like exchanging a soul kiss with the sea.
It could be our baby. Her eyebrow, its perfect arc, the pale blue vein.
After the password was given, the question remained. My name.
The fog’s sheen is a mirror: my mother sees the terrain of the future—
You can tell by the walls whoever lives here doesn’t want to be seen.
The eyes of men were drawn, numb and automatic, to her youthfulness.
After moving, I began to look at the images and piece them together.
