about taking care of babies

"About Taking Care of Babies," March 28, 2022 (#87)

title from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air 3.24, "Six Degrees of Graduation" (1993)

The Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1941)

The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry (1971)

The Last Gentleman by Walker Percy (1966)

The Last Action Hero (1993)

The Moviegoer by Walker Percy (1961)

The Last Pirate: A Father, HIs Son, and the Golden Age of Marijuana by Tony Dokoupil (2014)

The Last Dance Episode 1 (2020)

About Taking Care of Babies

I get everything I want and now it means nothing

as soon as he regained consciousness. He feigned

some damn fool shooting coyotes from an airplane

and the intention was delicate compliment.

You saved me from humiliation. You are my dearest

time of year, a deserted deck where we might stretch out

a sign of how little things change

that you can deposit some money in my account.

They didn't waste any money bringing in a slick traveling

novel. It was about this young man who was a

complete balls-up, and my day has been terrible,

as if, having signaled me and repenting of it, it had

a quiet corner of the bar, holding a gin and tonic.

Whoever is the team leader on that team, I'm

a sort of technological virtuoso and here.

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The Last Supper by Leonardo DaVinci (1495). From here.