She got her papers served – now she has a court date. She called his lawyer who told her that he was her husband’s not her lawyer and then charged his time not to her but to him. She wanted to know if she was supposed to get a lawyer too. What was he supposed to tell her? Nothing, He had been advised . Don't talke to her. But sometimes you forget to look at the caller ID. Gotta get new locks for the doors. They make re-key sets, but that would be too easy (and too cheep) and no one would make any money so they don’t stock them – maybe you can order them over the Internet it was suggested. Yeah, but I need to change the locks today. When did she come by? I didn't realize that she had. Must a been before you got home – she had taken the rest of her clothes and some of his personal papers. The other day the door was ajar but nothing seemed to be missing and the place had not been rifled so I didn't think that anyone had broken in and besides that was Saturday morning and no one is up and about. I probably just left the door open after taking the dog for his morning walk. The neighborhood kids are about and causing mischief. But they do that at night and the early hours of morning. And all the police will do is tell you to get a shotgun. God who wants to be responsible for killing some kid over a little vandalism. He got his baseball bat out and put it by the door and I began to lock my truck at night. I bought locks sets for the front and back doors and will have the current lock sets re-keyed and put on doors to the garages. Court date is for sometime in September. The lawyer’s retaining fee was rapidly dwindling. He had to supplement it..
Millions killed cheaply / have trodden out a path in the wilderness – Osip Mandelstam – The Voronezh Notebooks, 1996 p83
Far far far away eyes
All I can do is give you
Ten dollars
Next week I’ll have enough
Again – If your down
On your luck – and if your
Down by the creek you may
Also have far away eyes
Tonight
The one word that happens to have no success can only be the last one for just a moment – Raymond Federman – The Twofold Vibration, 1982 p116
If there be not peril to your own children it is immoral to be out killing those of others' regardless of the activities of their fathers.
The chimes of the Kremlin clocks / are the language of space compressed to a dot – Osip Mandelstam – The Voronezh Notebooks, 1996 p34
It’s dark up the street
I thought it might be
A car on fire
But no, just a
Storm front
I look for signs of
A funnel
There was lightening
In that direction last night
But no rain came
Of it
Branches scuttle across
The road and the wind
Rattles the truck
Golden fleece, where are you, golden fleece? / The sea’s heavy waves roared the whole way. / Abandon the ship, its sail worn out / Odysseus returning full with space and time – Osip Mandelstam – Tristia, 1987 p35
Oh, sweetie – you’re spending all our money and we don’t have any
And Charlie that is true
So true Charlie, that is true
You tell it Charlie. You tell it true
In any man the best and the worst live side by side and sometimes mingle – and that what is worst comes through the corruption of what is best – Victor Serge – Memoirs of a Revolutionary
SUFFERING DOGGERAL
Do me another
The same
An ale and a dog
He won’t bite
So tame
With a side of kraut
It’s the same
Watching
The game
On Monday night
The quarterback
Came up lame
Imagine a century like a room so large, / a corridor so long / you could travel for a life time // and never find the door – Tony Hoagland – Donkey Gospel, 1998 p7
63% of all Americans sometime during their lives use some form of means-tested aid (otherwise known as welfare) for which being poor is the qualifier; but only 16% will receive it for five or more consecutive years. I wonder what the numbers are for wealthfare which is welfare in reverse (you only qualify if you have sufficient resources)? Every homeowner gets it, Walmart gets it. Even BP gets it.
No good story is quite true – Leslie Stephen
No comments:
Post a Comment