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Remembering Matters: Denver Butson is a great poet

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Monday, February 23, 2009. Denver Butson is a great poet. What She Was Wearing. This is my suicide dress. I only wear it on days. I might kill myself. If I don't wear it. You've been wearing it. Every day since we met. And these are my arson gloves. So you don't set fire to something? And this is my terrorism lipstick. My assault and battery eyeliner. My armed robbery boots. I'd like to undress you. But would that make me an accomplice? So don't get any ideas. And she put on her nervous breakdown hat.

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Remembering Matters: How Mishra Got His Name

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Friday, October 24, 2008. How Mishra Got His Name. He ordered tests the next day. It was Friday and it was snowing again. The hospital was short staffed but also short of patients due to the weather. I sat with Julia for most of the day as she got a series of dyes injected, scans and x-rays. Since it was Friday, there'd be not results until Monday. We had the weekend to wait. A long weekend. Singin' in the Rain. I'm reminded again of elders in nursing homes. Does anyone care about how they got their ...

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Remembering Matters: More from the Good Reverend Billy

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Friday, November 28, 2008. More from the Good Reverend Billy. For Buy Nothing Day:. The 10 Commandments Of Buylessness. As Revealed To Reverend Billy. Forgive people, yourself and everybody else. We all shop too much. Know your Devil. Shoppers are only dancing in the land of ten thousand ads. Consumerism is the system. Corporations are the agents of the system. Respect the micro-gesture. Magicalize the foreground. Fore-go the plastic bag and grab that bare banana – Amen! Posted by Judith Shapiro. More fr...

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Remembering Matters: George Bilgere never ceases to amaze me.

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Monday, March 23, 2009. George Bilgere never ceases to amaze me. My aunt was an organ donor. And so, the day she died,. Her organs were harvested. I suppose there must be people. Who list, under "Occupation,". Organ Harvester," people for whom. It is always harvest season,. Each death bringing its bounty. They spend their days. Loading wagonloads of kidneys,. Whole cornucopias of corneas,. Burlap sacks groaning with hearts and lungs. And the pale green sprouts of gall bladders,. And perhaps today,. You s...

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Remembering Matters: Ladies, Man your plungers.

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Sunday, November 9, 2008. Ladies, Man your plungers. Kara sent me a link to this. Where are the crazy ladies of Arlington when I need them? Posted by Judith Shapiro. November 11, 2008 at 12:14 AM. Sure looks like hoot! November 11, 2008 at 6:48 PM. That had me laughing too! What FUN that was! November 25, 2008 at 4:58 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). More from the Good Reverend Billy. The Reverend Billy and The Church of Stop Shopping. Ladies, Man your plungers. 95 years old blogger. How does the ...

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Remembering Matters: What we need is more dancing.

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Monday, March 2, 2009. What we need is more dancing. When I checked my e-mail this morning, Chris had sent me a link to an article from the NYTimes, Get Outta the Way - We're Dancing Here By Tony Hiss, published January 31, 1998. Here's a bit of it:. What propels New Yorkers' high-speed feet? This is not recklessness. People have learned that walking works. Walking in New York - ' a great dance,' as William H. Whyte, its greatest student, wrote - is sustained by unending, intricately interwov...Few thing...

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Remembering Matters: Best quote I read today.

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Tuesday, March 3, 2009. Best quote I read today. From the NY Times article. About Nina Kuzma-Sapiejewska, a classical pianist who is an expert on Chopin - “We lived in a log cabin in Falls Church, Va.,” she said. “And then a dear friend crashed into my relationship and stole my husband, and the house became infested with bees and I had to move.”. Posted by Judith Shapiro. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). George Bilgere never ceases to amaze me. Book Alert. OMG, I cant keep up with all the boo. The you...

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Remembering Matters: No wonder Carl Dennis won a Pulitzer for Poetry

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Thursday, March 5, 2009. No wonder Carl Dennis won a Pulitzer for Poetry. If on your grandmother's birthday you burn a candle. To honor her memory, you might think of burning an extra. To honor the memory of someone who never met her,. A man who may have come to the town she lived in. Looking for work and never found it. Picture him taking a stroll one morning,. After a month of grief with the want ads,. To refresh himself in the park before moving on. Suppose he notices on the gravel path the shards.

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Remembering Matters: I am Sad

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009. I am sad that people,. Parents, grandparents, brothers, sisters,. Live out their dying days in nursing homes. I am sad that. Mr James walks up and down the corridors. Alarm attached to his ankle. Pushing on every door. Searching for a way out. I am sad that. Muriel called her adult children too many times last night. They called the nurse to complain. I am sad that. Gretchen packs her bags each night and waits for her children to come to take her home. Dot is agitated she says.