Norm Jenson
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The single drop of pee made a pitiful splash. Fred sighed as he stood over the cracked toilet bowl that, like him, had seen better days. The public restrooms at Wattle River Reserve weren’t as dirty as he’d feared, though the walls hosted a
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“Dorothy Parker who wrote witty stories, did not foresee that spectacles would be- come fashion accessories. “Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses.” And today, in Washington Square Park I thought of her, Miss Parker, and what she might say assessing the spectacles of our day: “Even the nicest lasses Have tattoos on their asses.”
― Poems in the Manner Of
― Poems in the Manner Of
“Nearby was a box of thick seventy-eights, grackle black and grackle brilliant. Thea thought the cliff might come down. But the woman was goat-footed; she got to the top and came back down and handed over the doll.”
― The Souvenir Museum
― The Souvenir Museum
“Nadja, who is always hunting for a man, but always the wrong one, is trying to get together with Ebbe’s brother Karsten, who she would fit like a ring in his nose.”
― The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood – Youth – Dependency
― The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood – Youth – Dependency
“You could think a grackle was somebody you’d lost, or wronged, or owed a favor to, come back to settle accounts.”
― The Souvenir Museum
― The Souvenir Museum
“You,” she might have said to a particular grackle. “Georgia. Is it?”
― The Souvenir Museum
― The Souvenir Museum
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