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Blog Post: Marooned in Miami

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This time for my flight to Paris to meet my wife Norma I did everything perfectly. For the 9pm flight on Caribes airline — FrenchBee — I arrived at Miami airport at 4pm. It just seemed prudent. I did all the things you do, I checked my one bag electronically at the kiosk, I managed to secure a much better seat for an extra $20, I managed to separate fact from fiction regarding the...

Poets and Writers Live: Of writers and political conscience

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I write from passion and desperation; my heritage is as a punk and a hippie, a fan of visionary and beat poetics, a lover of revolutionaries and rebels. I also am drawn to the severe aesthetics of writers like Nabokov and Wallace Stevens. I straddle worlds. But let’s have a little context. The Friday before the Jan. 10, 2015,  Poets and Writers Live event at the Brava Theater in San...

Imagine my idiot surprise

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Indeed, imagine my idiot surprise that French people talking about Jack Kerouac in Paris would be talking about him in French! Imagine my idiot surprise that French is really such a completely different language from English that whatever they’re saying about Jack Kerouac is impossible to understand even with hand gestures and changes in posture and tone of voice! Imagine that the biggest...

Eating cookies in my underwear

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There are many things to do in Paris. Many things people do in Paris not fully dressed. One of the best things to do in Paris is to eat cookies not fully dressed. These cookies have chocolate on the top but underneath are just butter. It’s butter and chocolate. Outside the sun is bright and cars are going by. There is much driving in Paris. If you attempt to drive a car into Paris and then...

Time to ban “love locks” on Paris bridges

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When I first saw “love locks” on the Ponte Vecchio in Florence, they seemed like a charming folk expression. The metaphor of a lock on a bridge! Symbolizing lovers’ devotion! It spoke to the heart and the mind: transition, a liminal state, a gap between two certainties; a thing as ephemeral as love held firm in the cold steel of a lock. And an ordinary lock like from the hardware store...

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