…tomatoes who show no pity.

April 24, 2009 by · Leave a Comment
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I'm trying to go green, but the cats won't stay out of my small, slightly ergonomically designed box garden.  I've considered several ways to get rid of them: BB guns (but that's hardly a green attitude); a tin pie pan tied to a 2x4 (but that would ruin the aesthetic); placing lime, lemon, and orange rinds around the exterior (my fading grandmother with all her southern gentility and, now, senility, swears this is a feline deterrent - I'm highly doubtful and so have yet to choose this option); or simply leaving Max in the yard (he's a 100+ pound white German...

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The Mercy Blog: The Split Man Speaks

April 22, 2009 by · Leave a Comment
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There's always some ledge I seem to be standing on. Some ledge of extreme human possibility or capacity.

 

At times, it’s a wonderful place to stand, when I’m thoroughly engrossed in a play, or a poem, and I’m truly making that effort to connect to the writing, to the theme, to the universality of it, and ultimately, myself, right?, but there are other times, when all it does is remind me of how terrified I am of heights: literal and those of accomplishment, or rather, the fear...

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