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Answer to an unasked question (scales from Anne Youngson)

to me once reasons why you never did his face is enough punched or foolish not questions answer to an unasked question use up the dream paper thin facts and artifacts not water hardly dead no grave, no urn a small boast
Unwashed and (flakes from Jessa Crispin)

unwashed and short hospital stay worried friends
Not so new addiction VII

“Life is painful, nasty and short – in my case it has only been painful and nasty,” Djuna Barnes 1978-1981 by Hank O’Neal The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith All the Lives We Ever Lived by Katherine Smyth Normandy Stories by Guy de Maupassant Molloy by Samuel Beckett Herman Melville by(…)
Truth is terrible (scales from Olga Tokarczuk)

travel-sized toiletries tubes and jar-lettes iron shirts taut point isn’t always restaurants on rue je ne sais quoi blustery clumps wasn’t reading, she wasn’t listening butter over truth is terrible Athena out of Zeus’s in itself is
An honest waistcoat (chords by Thomas Hardy)

the villages of fifty years ago interest has disappeared possibly, grandmother by fitting thoughts to be sure unsightly necessaries a time, a key fiddles and all every note as if round like a turnstile vulgar sweaters make an honest waistcoat an expression of great sin beginning with six hands down(…)
Thomas Hardy in Central Park

While taking a shortcut at dusk across Central Park, the day darkened with a snap of earth’s rotating fingers. We’d just retarded our clocks back to standard time, and here we were once more, in the dark at 5 in the afternoon . The many and varied park trees along the sloping hills were ablaze(…)
A bad actual (feathers from Samuel Butler)

the perfect coincidence a morbid sensitiveness throwing a husband away ugly, disagreeable, maiden daughter hopes and fears and little stratagems five strange young ladies not a bad actual in a small boat on a choppy sea Christina’s duty he was master now can fear knees waxed weak only a common hen he was(…)

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The Potato Eater

Answer to an unasked question (scales from Anne Youngson)

Unwashed and (flakes from Jessa Crispin)

Not so new addiction VII

Truth is terrible (scales from Olga Tokarczuk)

An honest waistcoat (chords by Thomas Hardy)

Thomas Hardy in Central Park

A bad actual (feathers from Samuel Butler)

Books By Alison Leslie Gold
The Potato Eater The raw true story of Padric, a gay hustler from the Bronx who spent 1941-1965 in and out of 20 prisons