“Send me your fire,” Joe sings.
“Joe, that’s not the lyric.”
“Sure it is,” Joe insists, and belts it out again, “Send me your fire!”
“Joe, the line is, ‘Set me on fire,’ get it right….
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“They may take our livers, but they will never take our Fredonia!”
“Joe, that’s not the line…
“Brian, ya gotta hear this.”
“What now, Joe?”
“I just thought of this. What if you had triangles…
The white-haired, white-clad man frowns at me.
He points to the MRI-looking machine. “Get in.” After a too-long pause, he adds, “Please.”
I am sweating, rather more than I recall doing so a few minutes before when that mugger had me backed up against the wall. …
Hey, how’ve you been?
Haven’t seen you around
the office lately.
Been thinking.
Everything okay?
I want to meet
the moon…
This morning
I found myself
with hands over ears
to block out the voice…
Walking outside,
I am a squeeze toy
squeezed by the humidity…
All the bets are off!
You all should just be ashamed!..
a golden ghost
tells you to evacuate…
The bees didn’t visit me today
to give me permission…
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