tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41301377293916068432024-03-14T00:15:16.080-07:00Oh, What a FeelingRachel Hurnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04138498124183973168noreply@blogger.comBlogger89125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130137729391606843.post-86146621051121242422013-03-29T13:17:00.000-07:002013-03-29T14:05:31.838-07:00Puppy Love<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Two men now</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">have called me a puppy</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">which sounds </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">about right.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Did you know</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I hurt people</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">when I hug them?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jumping up</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">limbs flailing</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">an elbow</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">to the forehead</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I don't realize</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">how sharp</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">my teeth are.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">How much is it</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">that I'm young</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">and wet</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">and needing shelter,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">and how much is it</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">that I'm nice to pet,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">and how much is it</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">that you know</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">there's a </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">good, old dog</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">in there?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Take the bones </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">away</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">and let's see</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">what this is</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">all about.</span>Rachel Hurnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04138498124183973168noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130137729391606843.post-33023186867566886182013-02-01T09:41:00.000-08:002013-02-01T09:41:32.147-08:00Mother StaceyI said fuck in front of Mother Stacey this weekend and she didn't even blink. When she got really pissed was when I said maybe God was punishing me.<br />
<br />
"That's NOT true."<br />
<br />
All bad ass hard ass nun like in <i>Sound of Music.</i><br />
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"What could this beautiful young woman possibly be so troubled by?"<br />
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I just want to cross my legs.Rachel Hurnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04138498124183973168noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130137729391606843.post-25432074493198231252012-11-28T21:04:00.000-08:002012-11-28T21:04:29.997-08:00Remember This<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-m9EyvzUh_1o/ULbspFFSMOI/AAAAAAAAATA/HzZAaQ5BhLg/s1600/6813276580_7590f8eff2_b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-m9EyvzUh_1o/ULbspFFSMOI/AAAAAAAAATA/HzZAaQ5BhLg/s400/6813276580_7590f8eff2_b.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The radiator clicks on</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And I ask about the weekend.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">No, </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">you say, </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">We are sticking to the point.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Can you let go for today?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">On the train</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">no, I couldn’t.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Images of mountains </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">streams</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The way the </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">sun spread </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">across those </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">tall trees.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Why not </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">let go</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">like that?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You tell me </span></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I will remember this.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Like a shitty tuna sandwich.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">How are you to know </span></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">what a good one tastes like </span></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">unless you’ve had it</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">wrapped in cellophane </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">at the airport</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">for $3.95?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I stand </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">at the window</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">My reflection </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">stands back,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">a ghost.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">As I plie</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">to the back </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">of Brooklyn</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You say,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">We will remember this.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I think of Venice</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Hot, yellow sun.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">A boat.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">A piece of rope</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">winding around </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">a cleat.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And I know you’re right.</span></div>
<br />Rachel Hurnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04138498124183973168noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130137729391606843.post-7083452048227588222012-11-13T20:31:00.000-08:002012-11-13T20:31:57.548-08:00THWACK<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I first think about smashing something. I want to put my fist through a bigass piece of glass. Watch the whole thing shatter, like a spider web. Like a symphony. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Do you have good veins?” the nurse asked today. I am so much more than a long arm with a good vein. I am a fist. Two long legs with boots that click and go <i>THWACK </i>when I kick. I am strong and hard. Tall. When art students paint my portrait, I look mad. One woman painted me all distorted. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“The hard thing about painting pretty girls,” the teacher said, “is you make one mistake, and they look like monsters.” </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I have learned how to sit in a subway car, tightly packed next to two strangers, our arms touching, and weep without them noticing. Fold your arms. Don’t let the sound come out. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>What made me cry most? One thought, again and again.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><i>I want my mommy. I want my mommy. I want my mommy.</i></span></div>
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Rachel Hurnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04138498124183973168noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130137729391606843.post-81025253962317538832012-10-30T21:53:00.001-07:002012-10-30T21:53:31.469-07:00We Must Be CrazyWhen he was angry<br />
he'd throw his arm back<br />
like a softball pitch<br />
and wind-through-POW<br />
hit his hand<br />
fist against hand<br />
again. again. until we stopped him.<br />
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That's what I'd like now<br />
to take a wall out<br />
or a window<br />
throw my fist into something solid<br />
until it shatters.<br />
<br />
Is this what it means to be an artist?<br />
We must be crazy<br />
no diagnosis necessary.<br />
What if<br />
he didn't talk<br />
because he knew<br />
we wouldn't listen?Rachel Hurnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04138498124183973168noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130137729391606843.post-40695502569233353222012-10-22T08:53:00.000-07:002012-10-22T08:53:00.285-07:00the interior walls of houses<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The day that the wall punching happened, you got out of bed and stood,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">looking eye level, </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">at the softly collapsed piece of plaster. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">A perfect circle. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You sighed, </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">and without looking at me, </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">walked to the bathroom to shower. </span></div>
Rachel Hurnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04138498124183973168noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130137729391606843.post-18553007259152223752012-09-29T12:40:00.000-07:002012-09-29T12:41:16.378-07:00What<style>
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You and school,<br />
and me: jealous, jealous, jealous.<br />
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<br />Rachel Hurnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04138498124183973168noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130137729391606843.post-36417290467183504462012-08-24T14:09:00.000-07:002012-08-25T20:19:27.989-07:00Staff Pricks. I mean picks! (Part II)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Neil Simon</span></div>
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I think the people across the street<br />
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Except their hangs on the wall.<br />
And mine stand up,<br />
Tall.Rachel Hurnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04138498124183973168noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130137729391606843.post-86488434088308198582012-07-24T07:57:00.000-07:002012-07-24T07:57:19.255-07:00Staff Pricks. I mean Picks!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I wrote some picks for McNally Jackson yesterday. It may take days, weeks, for these to make their way up to the shelf. <i>I Am A Bunny </i>just sells so goddamn well.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><b>Swimming Studies</b></i><br />Leanne Shapton<br /><br />Shapton writes about being good at swimming but wanting to be great at it,<br />which transfers to being an artist or a writer, or frankly, a human being.<br />If you are in love with the person you want to be, but aren't there yet,<br />this book is for you.<br /><br /><br /><i><br /></i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><b>Not Me</b></i><br />Eileen Myles<br /><br />When someone recently asked me who Eileen Myles was, I said: Poet.<br />Bostonian. Lesbian. Glorious godsend of a voice that cannot be replicated.<br />I may or may not be stalking her.<br /><br /><br /><i><br /></i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Lorrie Moore<br /><br />Moore is a master of craft. Any one of these nine stories will leave you<br />insatiably grasping for more —for MOORE! Oh God!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><i><br /></i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><b>Norwegian Wood</b></i><br />Haruki Murakami<br /><br />Coming of age in Japan apparently means lots of sex with older women, and<br />troubled women, and women in general.<br /><br /><i><br /></i></span><br />
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I came of age<br />
in this place<br />
a coming of age<br />
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A hand at my back<br />
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A clip<br />
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sitting in this sun<br />
eating this croissant.<br />
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apathy.<br />
Too many voices<br />
calling--<br />
Go. Feel. See.<br />
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When a car almost<br />
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is that how it went?<br />
I had just told you<br />
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if it was the sea<br />
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nice. But seriously, there’s a building tension throughout the piece.
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">there are no words</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">there was nothing to do</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">What am I saying</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">you could throw yourself</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">and you did</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">you almost died.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">We spent the night</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">nursing you</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">horrified.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I don’t speak of it much,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">do you?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">In the morning, </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">rode on the back of a motorcycle</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">to lay in the sun</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">on a “pay by towel” basis.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Had my picture taken</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">thank god for glasses</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">my eyes were shaken.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Threw your hat</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">into the wake</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">said goodbye</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><i>Lord</i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><i>Lord</i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><i>Take this man</i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><i>Try</i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">And then alone</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">was it You who sent</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">such a prehistoric go-between?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">to shake him </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">from his reverie<b>―</b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">guilt and fear</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">flow from love.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">dark and deep</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">you can throw a piece</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">but sink the whole ship</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">if peace is what you seek.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">making the clouds passing by</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">look like smoked ellipses.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">In a garden</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">on Elizabeth Street</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">at twilight</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I thought of Copenhagen</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">and warehouses</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">and yellow painted chairs</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">a note scrawled on the gate</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>I remember you from the future.</i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i></i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">There’s a little bar I know</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">on the sixth floor</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">you can get as drunk on you want</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">bum cigarettes</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">you’ll say</span></div>
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<span style="font: 10.0px 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">—</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">whoever you are</span><span style="font: 10.0px 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">—</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">at two</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I didn’t know</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">the lights turned off</span></div>
<div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">and then you’ll kiss me.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Asking for my bed</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">telling me</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">it’s been so long</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I believe you.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You</span><span style="font: 10.0px 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">—</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">from a dream</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">we’re in the car</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">was it danishes in Los Feliz that day</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">or croissants?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I can’t shake the thought</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">it haunts </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I shouldn’t be here.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">suggest destructiveness </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">i sat</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">and talked</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">and felt good for a while</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">until i didn’t</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">i can’t make eye contact</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">there is a moment</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">the lingered stare</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">clunk. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">at the bottom</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">loss of air</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">makes the emotion come out</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">i hopped on </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">and plodded</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">trodded </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">pushed the dirt and sweat and grit</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">this town has a piece of my foot</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">and you have a piece of my </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">or it starts again</span></span></div>Rachel Hurnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04138498124183973168noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130137729391606843.post-90809455185893572012012-06-05T15:40:00.000-07:002012-06-05T15:40:14.292-07:00I Can See You Down the Road<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;">My grandfather lived in a mobile home</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;">the kind that sit on the ground and have no wheels.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;">I used to stand in the driveway</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;">and look through the wooden slats,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;">the open space,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px;">it was like the place floated.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">He moved a lot, but I didn't know him then.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I knew home and permanence</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">with the option of mobility.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I imagined the house</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">curving down the 101,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">precarious on a large truck bed,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"Wide Load" flapping in the wind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">He did the cooking, bathed me, </span></div>
<div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">scratched my back in the mornings when I</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">came into his room and nestled up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">After a few minutes he'd sigh and say,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My arm's tired,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and stop.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">When changing, I'd ask him to take his glasses off.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Can you see me?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I wanted him to prove it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I can't see a thing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The smell of sheets was a comfort I can still recall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The sound of the Sixty Minutes clock ticking on the screen, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">however, was not.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">His chair leg popped up with a loud creak.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">His glasses were thick and smudgy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In the mornings we walked to the bakery</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and ate crunchy, flat pastries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">At the gas station it was Pepsi and lottery tickets.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">At the park it was the best climbing tree I've known,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and the friend down the street</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">who taught me to vandalize.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Her older brothers rode bikes </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and made me think about boyfriends.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A honeysuckle plant climbed up the fence by the trash cans,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">which grandpa would walk to every night after dinner.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The white bag of trash </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">dangling from his fingers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">There was a weeping willow tree by the pool</span></div>
<div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">where he swam laps on summer days</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And the office where Chuck worked,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">his English cowboy neighbor with </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">two parakeets and a wife.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For such a wanderer, the man liked rituals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I don't remember him drinking.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I don't know that he read.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">He didn't talk much, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">but he smiled a lot</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and tapped his fingers on his knee</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and people liked him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">When grandpa recounts the years of moving<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; line-height: 19px; text-align: center;">—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">England to Canada to Spokane to California<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; line-height: 19px; text-align: center;">—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">he lists destinations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Whole countries and oceans crossed,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">point A to point B.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My dad remembers particulars<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; line-height: 19px; text-align: center;">—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">boxes,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">almost overheating the car on a mountain in Northern California,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and also, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">not having any friends.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A month before he died</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">we spoke on the phone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">He got lost</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">called me Sonia,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">but he didn't correct himself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The vision in his head was clear.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">he said,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"leaning against a wall."</span></div>Rachel Hurnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04138498124183973168noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130137729391606843.post-38328295737866651102012-05-22T16:34:00.000-07:002012-05-22T16:34:00.113-07:00Way Out<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Last night</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I lay on that side of the wall</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Which felt new and possibly exciting</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But I remembered--</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Imagined her imagining us</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Lying there</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">On our side</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And a rock fell</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">DROP</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I was called an asshole today</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Actually an idiot</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But he was walking fast enough</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I could tell</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And then later</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Another brush with legs and tires</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It is the city</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It is my long legs</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It is my long legs in the city no way out</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Where's the way</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I want out</span>Rachel Hurnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04138498124183973168noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130137729391606843.post-90431728793178610092012-03-28T12:01:00.001-07:002012-03-28T12:05:15.556-07:00Spliffs<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jwFGeuNHFTM/T3NfvHVOWoI/AAAAAAAAAPk/BlL03yiJYic/s1600/Crown-Heights-row-houses-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="172" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jwFGeuNHFTM/T3NfvHVOWoI/AAAAAAAAAPk/BlL03yiJYic/s400/Crown-Heights-row-houses-1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I moved to New York and rented an apartment in Park Slope. My room was as wide as I am long, and before I moved in any furniture, I lay out on the ground, my head touching one wall and my feet touching the other, and took a picture. The floors were fake wood and there was a bubble in the bathroom ceiling that one day popped, spraying water and plaster onto the floor. But the window in my room faced the back of a church and a cluster of tenement apartments. The way the sun rose over the low skyline, the light flooding in from the window, gave me peace. Everything—what little I had—was cast in that light. Later I would move to Manhattan and realize that the view had been very Brooklyn, the light beatifying the plain white walls, the tattered chair picked up off the street, the shelf with stacks and stacks of writing materials. </span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">My roommate was also from California, from the north, and one of our first weekends in Brooklyn we pedaled to a party in Williamsburg. </span><span style="color: #1d1d1d; letter-spacing: 0px;">We found a place to lock our bicycles</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">. Twenty bikes or more were parked out front. A bunch of kids our age had converted an old warehouse into a living art space, and it was the kind of party where you got lost in all the rooms. We drank various shots of liquor, not being careful not to mix. It wasn’t that kind of party. When a band hooked up their equipment and started playing in one of the rooms, the dancing got so violent that a boy with curly brown hair cracked his forehead on a corner and started bleeding. He danced while he bled; a dark maroon splotch made its way onto my shirt.</span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="color: #1d1d1d; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“Yeah, dude,” she said, “we’re not in California anymore. The pot here sucks.”</span></span></div><div style="color: #1d1d1d; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="color: #1d1d1d; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I turned back towards the fire and took a short drag from the joint, coughing sharply on the exhale. </span></span></div><div style="color: #1d1d1d; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="color: #1d1d1d; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Later, we tried not to be alarmed when we got back to our bikes and the handlebars had been meddled with, were facing the wrong direction. While a blond kid dressed in a hand-knit wool sweater, smoking a spliff, watched me snap my wheel back into place, he spat phlegm onto the pavement. We pedaled home, passing Hassidic neighborhoods as we rode. </span></span></div>Rachel Hurnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04138498124183973168noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130137729391606843.post-27505418490460166822012-03-28T06:45:00.002-07:002012-03-28T06:45:34.443-07:00I just want.Rachel Hurnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04138498124183973168noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130137729391606843.post-29175348957854586252012-02-27T18:46:00.000-08:002012-02-27T18:46:56.489-08:00Biek Snob<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rxYIKbPd0D0/T0w_ovGM7SI/AAAAAAAAAPY/_AisPP0Ni64/s1600/scaring+the+horses.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="281" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rxYIKbPd0D0/T0w_ovGM7SI/AAAAAAAAAPY/_AisPP0Ni64/s400/scaring+the+horses.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Don't you miss the days when a bicycle could terrify a team of horses?</span><br />
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Gave a friend a plant named Mary<br />
At a party where the popcorn balls<br />
Were laced with THC<br />
Fell backwards off my chair<br />
The Nicaraguan parents said,<br />
"You're such a lady,<br />
You've been everywhere."<br />
Not to Nicaragua<br />
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</span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“To go there, and to see these vaginas, is actually a puzzling experience.” -</span><span style="font: 11.0px 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">Suzannah Lessard</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 12.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">“Miss Hurn, would you rather receive a bouquet of roses, or would you rather receive a dictionary with the word ‘rose’ underlined?” -Professor Siegel</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 12.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">“I’m going to make wizard capes fashionable.” -Workshop Christina </span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 12.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">“Publishing people don’t take a risk like they used to. That’s a bygone culture that you couldn’t possibly imagine.” -Suzannah Lessard</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 12.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">“I thought the bag said, ‘Peanuts roasted in hell.’ But the ‘S’ was covered up.” -Mark Bibbins</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 12.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">“There is no there there.” -Gertrude Stein</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">(<i>Gertrude Stein</i> by Andy Warhol.)</span></span></div><div><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><br />
</span></div>Rachel Hurnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04138498124183973168noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130137729391606843.post-22610310622492689252012-01-22T09:10:00.000-08:002012-01-22T09:10:41.012-08:00Stillness<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0knCZJpiA8E/TxxCmdv8PNI/AAAAAAAAAO8/pak1EDIAHWc/s1600/photo.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0knCZJpiA8E/TxxCmdv8PNI/AAAAAAAAAO8/pak1EDIAHWc/s320/photo.JPG" width="239" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I am learning stillness</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sitting on the living room floor</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">After a snow storm</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It feels like I'm in a clearing of a deserted wood</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Which is nice</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But it's not the stillness I'm talking about</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I'm talking about loneliness</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I'm thinking of wandering up and down St. Mark's</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Buying cheese danishes from the Jewish bakery</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Cheese danishes that I don't end up eating</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Because I didn't want them</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I don't know what I want</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Kathleen Graber in book four tells me to wait</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Like she knows</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">When she looks at me</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Lying in my bed</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The world flashing</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Want need now</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Every minute of every day</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">She shakes her head</span><br />
<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Didn't she know the sea would always bring more?</span></i><br />
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">*Photo: The Boy's back yard.</span></i>Rachel Hurnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04138498124183973168noreply@blogger.com0