a knife fight for a citrus drink
"A Knife Fight for a Citrus Drink," August 14, 2022 (#226)
title from Seinfeld 8.8, "The Chicken Roaster" (1996)
Ice Station Zebra (1968)
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (2014)
At the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner (2011)
A Knife Fight for a Citrus Drink
Maneuvering watch is set, captain. We're ready to get
the great cleansing that we suffered twenty years ago
such attention, and that all of this would improve her image
packed to the gills with radar, sonar and radio equipment
brushed up against the glass, and for a moment everything
let out a single ridiculous sob. Then I laughed at myself, applied
highly trained in arctic maneuvers but untested in actual
pollen on a summer breeze. There is money, slips of paper
walking slowly but it felt to me like we were standing still
answering, all back two-thirds. One hundred feet up
there’s a group of twenty or twenty-two approaching,
arrived at what looked like a fancy private residence but
we don't believe in going on a mission totally
catching in the flowers that had sprung up through
the language I was speaking, building simple sentences.
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