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Andrew Jackson…

February 15, 2011

Andrew Jackson ordering appetizers and not sharing. Andrew Jackson buying his shoes one size larger well into his twenties. Andrew Jackson stealing toilet paper from the fitness center he seldom goes to. Andrew Jackson licking a mirror, his breath fogging the glass. Andrew Jackson repeating “Meriwether” until it becomes a string of meaningless syllables. Andrew [...]

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A Coal Miner Remembers His Canaries

October 19, 2009

Pa said not to do this–name birds and such—but he’s gone  fourteen years now and I do mostly as I please. We weren’t much for sparrows or ‘keets. We were canary people, long as I can remember. They died quick—first whiff of that bad air. Sparrows were fighters, and my people liked an early alarm. [...]

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