to make these moves

"To Make These Moves," March 13, 2022 (#72)

title from "Led Zeppelin Gets Into Your Soul" by James Wood (January 24, 2022)

God Is Dead by Ron Currie, Jr. (2007)

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1937)

My Date With Satan: Stories by Stacey Richter (1999)

last line from "The Biographer's Hat" by Cynthia Ozick (March 7, 2022)

To Make These Moves

Talking about someone as if they're not here

couldn’t make a speech without saying that. Some

especially crucial time in the development of this project

watched in silence as word spread and people came to

too much so long as it didn’t cost him anything.

There's nothing I love better than loser outcast guys, as

could most accurately be described as an expulsion

who never had known what it was to enter the gate of the

kitchen while the father merrily puts some Bach on the

food queue that stretched out of sight into the dense congregation of

slippers, necklace, earrings, everything he wants tuh see me in. Some

gourds scattered on the ground beneath our rusted swing set

something about a bonfire, a party up at the water tower

on the ground and have to be picked up. She’d be almost helpless

briefly before it would dissolve. Then I thought whatever, and

a sudden anger bubbles up, and I want to say, I doubt it. Probably

making every effort to get them covered up as quickly as possible

looks distracted and a little confused, as if

it were important to stay out of its way. I saw no reason.

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