unpublished stuff

  • honest review of walking to the coffee shop without music 2/16

    my footsteps are louder than i thought. they clunk clunk down the back way, and though i’ve already planned to do this, walk to the coffee shop without music, as i open the back door my right hand reaches reflexively for my headphones. already. i have to consciously pull it back. i step out from

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  • why

    she said she was starting a business – a peanut butter business – and it was going to be unlike other peanut butter because it was going to have glitter in it. edible glitter, of course… she was working with a food scientist. “he’s going to make it sparkle!” she said, and i thought of peanut butter

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  • dear

    it’s the easing heat of a Boston day, Junemeeting July, Will and i walk the shipyardin Charlestown. we sit to rest in the sun. i say, “i regret this immediately, let’s findshade.” “we’ve gone too far,” Will says. i stand and begin to walk. he grunts, rises,follows. “this my favorite view of Boston,” i say

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