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essays, stories, and poems largely about books, cooking, & people
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I'll Never Get Y'all to Read the Bible, Will I? (opens the original)
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The other day a friend was describing to me his experience of how anarchist-ish spaces seem to spontaneously spawn oligarchs. I told him, “Bro, you really need to read the Bible. This is just like the story of Saul and David.”This wasn’t the first time I told him to read the Bible. He thought that “Jesus overturning the tables of the moneylenders” was something that Christopher Moore made up for Lamb: the Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal.I think that everyone should read the Bibl
To Her Boyfriend, on Going to Morning Yoga (opens the original)
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Subscribe nowTell me not (Sweet) that I am frigid That from the paradiseOf thy broad chest and thy rigid —, I go to exercise.True: a new mistress tortures me, A yogini chanting Om;And my legs press, instead of thee, A block of senseless foam.And yet this coldness actually Made you desire this — More than if, counterfactually, I had skipped yoga class.<a class="button p
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