These are smart, engaging explorations of contemporary life with an understated accessibility. I have been reading them slowly the way I choose to enjoy each cherry off of the tree. Lolling the fruit around and savoring every nuance that I can taste from the flesh of the fruit before moving on to the next one.For example:
PROPRIETY
In a
precisely lighted room, the CFO speaks
of start-to-start dependencies.
Says let me loop back with you.
of start-to-start dependencies.
Says let me loop back with you.
Says
please cascade as appropriate.
It's that time of morning; we all can smell
the doughnut factory. If scent were white
It's that time of morning; we all can smell
the doughnut factory. If scent were white
noise,
doughnuts would be that scent.
The factory won't sell at any price.
The building next to it burns the animals
The factory won't sell at any price.
The building next to it burns the animals
we
experiment on. I have worked
on a few preclinical reports in my time.
The rhesus monkeys become
on a few preclinical reports in my time.
The rhesus monkeys become
so
desperate that they attempt suicide,
over and over again. I am legally obligated
to spare you the particulars.
over and over again. I am legally obligated
to spare you the particulars.
How
could things be any different?
Here many choice molecules have been born.
Here. This pill will dissolve like sugar.
Here many choice molecules have been born.
Here. This pill will dissolve like sugar.
Your
last five months will be good ones.
~ Randall Mann, 1972 -
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