to make these moves
"To Make These Moves," March 13, 2022 (#72)
title from "Led Zeppelin Gets Into Your Soul" by James Wood (January 24, 2022)
God Is Dead by Ron Currie, Jr. (2007)
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1937)
My Date With Satan: Stories by Stacey Richter (1999)
last line from "The Biographer's Hat" by Cynthia Ozick (March 7, 2022)
To Make These Moves
Talking about someone as if they're not here
couldn’t make a speech without saying that. Some
especially crucial time in the development of this project
watched in silence as word spread and people came to
too much so long as it didn’t cost him anything.
There's nothing I love better than loser outcast guys, as
could most accurately be described as an expulsion
who never had known what it was to enter the gate of the
kitchen while the father merrily puts some Bach on the
food queue that stretched out of sight into the dense congregation of
slippers, necklace, earrings, everything he wants tuh see me in. Some
gourds scattered on the ground beneath our rusted swing set
something about a bonfire, a party up at the water tower
on the ground and have to be picked up. She’d be almost helpless
briefly before it would dissolve. Then I thought whatever, and
a sudden anger bubbles up, and I want to say, I doubt it. Probably
making every effort to get them covered up as quickly as possible
looks distracted and a little confused, as if
it were important to stay out of its way. I saw no reason.
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