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I was going to take a walk out through the cardinal boardwalk along the swamp today. But it was too sunny and cold. Jim said that the bogcats were out anyway. Instead i stayed inside with Caroline who rocked me to sleep and earlier kept me awake with delicious nothings that she painted on my kitchen wall. My favorite was of a kitten. It had green eyes and was dripping blood from its stomache, but this kind of unfriendliness was mitigated. There was a small angel above the kitten that was goin...

It was raining a hackneyed cold pouring rain, the kind that gave the mood to not a few old Hollywood movies, but nobody minded much because it was summer and the temperature had been hitting records. I was in the bus shelter wedged on a bench between Joe and Tommy, prepubescent brothers whose hatred reminded me of the kind of rivalry found between two countries that have shared the same border for thousands of years, with Joe playing, say, Russia, to Tommy’s Poland. Periodically their frontie...