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Homes
Had it all gone differently: places I might live, might have lived. Places where I would grow old, or live with someone, or be enmeshed in a different pattern of people and behavior. Some are pretty obvious: the upper floor of a Victorian in the hills south of 18th around Castro, in San Francisco. Gentle,…
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Postcards
Flying, flying, endless air. Half asleep, we watch clouds For evidence of a plan, For our real destination. ••• My arms sleep in white sand. Palm trees relax, stretch, flow easily. I’m sitting by the ocean for days. I don’t know where I am. Find me. ••• The wind explodes, Fires lake-ice into my eyes.…
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Ruined by a book
It is fascinating but slightly disturbing to look through the e-books available for free through hacker websites. The offerings are linked to what is available on respectably capitalist sales sites, of course – the most popular are rarely well-written, generally non-fiction, books that purport to tell the ambitious and the desperate how to change their…
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Good government
I tend to avoid politics, at least in its concrete form; gender politics, identity politics, and such are comfortable for me, but perhaps because I was a teenager during Watergate, and then watched my life and career disintegrate in the 1980s under Reagan, I tend to distrust the entire discussion. Not that I am willing…
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One day
Overlapping experiences, overlapping responses to them: last night’s relaxed social dinner with colleagues and friends, today’s anxious management of some administration in a frantically brief time before going to the hospital to do another HIV presentation, then went to the nearby Indian grocery, then off to a festive department dinner, then a brief visit to…
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The white wall
(a folk song translated from an unknown language) He came out of the dry east with a leather bag He stood in the square, and I know he smiled at me Stroked his mustache, boasted to the village men No one knows who told his secret The leather bag was left empty against the wall…
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