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Rivers

are just lakes
that are too embarrassed
to ask
for directions.

 

Brad Pitt

He is the thumb
of beauty, the part
that presses
the detonator & hangs
up the phone.

 

Napkin

Saws, marbles, guns, violins, moons…
among other things

on the dictator’s
Christmas list.

 

 

Banner graphic source: a scene of acrobats (cropped) drawn by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1727–1804) with pen and ink, brush and brown wash, and black chalk, done likely in 1791. In the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 68.54.4. In the public domain.

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