Mary
(sometimes just Sue)
is
fulfillment
underlying all
how exceptional and wonderful
quickly either male
or female

Mary
original
fantasies
may seem to push
her

undisguised
Mary comes
is judged

improbably
the puzzle
Mary
is
a flaw
is an annoyance,
is also apparently not a flaw

I Think Andy Rooney Has Cloned And Set Down Root In My Psyche, Dreaming Of Poetry

to think deep thoughts
make cosmic projections
–wouldn’t that be nice

to expound on the ground and the weight of the state of it
universalize the wonder of it all
–did you ever notice

to unmeasure time
create worlds from the space between words
–here’s a poem I wrote once

all her life, they had been saving down
to make her wedding feather bed

to celebrate the birth,
grandmother killed a goose
and brought the carcase, warm,
to where her daughter lay

a mother makes the first gift

weakly wrenched out of the body
the first feather was bound
inside a square of silk, red,
with wormwood, thyme, and rue

the bundle, smaller than a baby’s fist,
soaked by the fire, in bees’ wax
until the baby had a name

from that day, for a hundred days
they melted crimson wax, dipped
the feather once, and let it harden

honey-scented, it still waited
feather herbs and silk
under bushel bags of down

Mary
(sometimes just Sue)
is
fulfillment
underlying all
how exceptional and wonderful
quickly either male
or female

Mary
original
fantasies
may seem to push
her

undisguised
Mary comes
is judged

improbably
the puzzle
Mary
is
a flaw
is an annoyance,
is also apparently not a flaw

This is Fred Colby’s introduction of Albert Gore’s band at a square dance in 1938:

“Some thirty or forty years ago, two brothers ran for governor of Tennessee. The one on the Republican ticket, and one on the Democrat. And they went around over the state fiddling. The Democrat was the best fiddler, and he was elected. But the Republican was a very shrewd man, as they have to be in Tennessee. So, he waited until the Democrats nominated a man who couldn’t fiddle, and then he ran again and was elected, about twenty years later.

“Well, our–the music for our square dance tonight is furnished by Albert Gore’s band. Albert and six other men, they ran for Congress in the fourth Congressional district. And Albert, he was a little young, but he was the best fiddler, and we thought he’d be the safest man. His band is going to give us the music for the square dance tonight.”

Listen to Albert Gore’s band perform “Soldier’s Joy” at the1938 National Folk Festival, Constitution Hall, Washington, D.C. May 1938

5 MINUTE CHOCOLATE MUG CAKE
4 tablespoons flour
4 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons cocoa
1 egg
3 tablespoons milk
3 tablespoons oil
3 tablespoons chocolate chips (optional)
A small splash of vanilla extract
1 large coffee mug (MicroSafe)

Add dry ingredients to mug, and mix well. Add the egg and mix thoroughly.

Pour in the milk and oil and mix well..

>Add the chocolate chips (if using) and vanilla extract, and mix again.
Put your mug in the microwave and cook for 3 minutes at 1000 watts.
The cake will rise over the top of the mug, but don’t be alarmed!
Allow to cool a little, and tip out onto a plate if desired.
EAT ! (this can serve 2 if you want to feel slightly more virtuous).
Now we are all only 5 minutes away from chocolate cake at any time of the day or night!

Ancient Gem-Studded Teeth Show Skill of Early Dentists.

And to think, I hate to go to the dentist

It’s gingers all the way down.

South Park on the Ginger Menace