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Some Words for the Week

Posted 1/15/25

I go to the grocery store

and Los Angeles is on fire

and so is the Middle East

but in a different way

and somebody behind me

in line says

it’s the driest January

in one hundred years

and I buy some apple sauce

and some cough syrup

and some sliced...

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Some Words for the Week

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I go to the grocery store
and Los Angeles is on fire
and so is the Middle East
but in a different way
and somebody behind me
in line says
it’s the driest January
in one hundred years
and I buy some apple sauce
and some cough syrup
and some sliced turkey
and it costs more
for just a few items
then I make in an hour
and I go outside
and the sunset is perfect
and I stand there
with my grocery bag
looking at the clouds
everything is so normal here
when the disaster
is somewhere else