Old Coat
By Liam Rector
Dressed in an old coat I lumber
Down a street in the East Village, time itself
Whistling up my ass and looking to punish me
For all the undone business I have walked away from,
And I think I might have stayed
In that last tower by the ocean,
The one I built with my hands and furnished
Using funds which came to me at nightfall,in a windfall....
Just ahead of me, under the telephone wires
On this long lane of troubles, I notice a gathering
Of viciously insane criminals I'll have to pass
Getting to the end of this long block in eternity.
There's nothing between us. Good
I look so dangerous in this coat.
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I wrote drabbles: "Evasion" for the "What were you doing?" "Sneaking!" challenge in
It snowed AGAIN! My kids were home AGAIN! That's five straight days they've had off; I should have taken them to see the beach in the snow or something. And we're supposed to get another two inches overnight, and the county-wide test of the schools is supposed to start tomorrow (you know, those idiotic tests they spend all year teaching for -- the test, not the education). Sigh. We painted model dragons and played Pokemon Master Trainer (well, some of us played and I watched) and I cleaned the stove -- let that tell you how desperate I become, stuck in the house.
These pictures are different takes on the same image, and I'm curious to know which people think is the better photograph. This is the close-up of the snow-laden branch with its dark berries, with the street in the background blurred...
...and this is the version with the branch and berries blurred but the tree across the street clear. Obviously this would be a better picture without the neighbor's station wagon in it, but is it okay to have this much blurring in the foreground with a focus on the background?
Now, this picture I love: the railing and the bushes behind it, both covered heavily with snow. The blur is gradual. Is there a word for that?
And the backyard view, blurred despite everything because the snow was falling so fast.
And
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