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Discomfortable moment
Last night was the last HIV patient presentation of the spring/summer; it was an odd one – not like our usual casual, confident get-together with people we know well, talking easily to young students who are always fascinated and slightly appalled. This was an elaborate, rather stiff, formal presentation run by some people up from…
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Forecast: finer
Once again, the weather is better, and so am I. That Venezuelan houseguest is again delayed, and confusion reigns on that front; but his Latin American identity has somewhat influenced the whole situation, as I merely feel like: oh well, okay, no worries. (Now you can see how valuable it was for me to live…
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Easter
Dead men were Flung spreadeagled from the barricade. The fight drained from our angled wounds. We fled the bunnies And their flashing hatchets, Limped across the reddened curb Into the alley, Its end blocked by a spaceship Guarded by ducklings with long black knives. You said: Let’s fight, we’ll grab the ship and fly, Set…
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Analysis
Monday/Tuesday: the sequence of actions – (a) Awakened early, stomach in difficulties, feeling stressed. Attracted to dreams and sleeping (because of avoiding responsibilities, because of the pleasantness of relaxing, because it was chilly out), stayed in bed. (b) Received several phone calls, tried to ignore, let machine take messages. Finally answered one call on my…
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The hospital room, at midnight
Drained neatly, each hour, stapled to a network of steel, wet plastic, web of blood and urine. Before the final bell of this fluorescent night: an orange. Oils burst, wild, juices glow, virginal, cold – alive! – a caravan, the blue-white sky, red haze of cinnamon, and bitter aloes, desert wind. In any trap, escape…
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…lazy…
Semi-demi-at-the-beginning-or-in-the-midst-of writing out the Sondheim/Heidegger paper. Various possible procrastination techniques from my extensive store of them are coming up, of course. There are a few concerts I have to see… the weather’s a bit dim… have to make dinner… might play another game of computer solitaire…. Wouldn’t it be interesting if I had somehow learned…
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Paul Attinello 