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by Kevin Higgins after Rod McKuen The old woman upstairs is again engaging in multi-partner Sadomasochism. I set my watch by the yelps and screams wafting through my ceiling. I see her often abseiling down the side of the building in her bloodstained ov... More »
by Marcia Seabury Behold him, single in his yard, Yon solitary modern neighbor! Mowing and murmuring by himself; Absorbed in all his labor. Alone he cuts and bags the grass, And raps a lyric as I pass— all quite inaudible, of course—while the Craftsman’s... More »