to help ease congestion

"To Help Ease Congestion," November 7, 2022 (#311)

title from "Houstonians celebrate Astros' win with downtown Championship Parade" (November 7, 2022)

The Rookie (2002)

Rookie of the Year (1993)

The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood (2009)

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (2005)

To Help Ease Congestion

The nuns told their parish priest about the man's dream and their

radial fractures of the ulna, assorted rotator cartilage damage--

a fact that the haughty ones of this world do not find pleasant to their

situation in which pathological bereavement could occur, I read.

I'm gonna take back two of them old ones, if that's OK with

a wild pitch, a very wild pitch. Oh. White's on his horse

so I called it that now too. The mushroomy, spicy Buenavista

operation under investigation by the district attorney’s office

was hopin' for a bit more support on the home front

to put the pedal to the metal, and just live the fantasy

that even the most terrible things happened for ultimately

precisely the opposite: I believed that I should have been.