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I’m sorry that…

I’m sor­ry that…I ate all the marshmallows.The cat knocked them over and there were grackles.Timbuktu was too far awayYou make lousy coffee.There is no vac­cine for that.I don’t want to go on Tuesday.I haven’t fin­ished Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations.Thursdays are always bad for me; they come after Wednesdays.Your check was late.It’s too ear­ly in the morning … 

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Arithematic

Arithmetic beside our dai­ly livescon­crete rit­u­als enrap­ture lovedesires like so many Lego bricks erect­ed we fin­ish build­ing our­grow­ing col­lec­tion of voodoo fig­uri­ne­shap­less hope­less held up by anig­no­rant God with­out jok­ers in the tarot deck­kept semi-comatose in the­lock up behind the mini-martnobody can say whoopened the gates or whopinned back yesterday’squandaryright now today­surren­der to the surgeon … 

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