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[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Photo courtesy of Waldo Jaquith via Flickr/Creative Commons

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MOM AND DAD By Jim Harrison Gentle readers, feel your naked belly button where you were tied to your mother. Kneel and thank her for your jubilant but woebegone life. Don’t for a moment think of the mood of your parents when you were conceived which so vitally affects your destiny. You have no control over that and it’s unprofitable to wonder if they were pissed off or drunk, bored, watching television news, listening to country music, or hopefully out in the orchard grass feeling the crunch of wind- fall apples under their frantic bodies. —From the volume, "Complete Poems" (2021)

[Traversing]

[diandramintz]

A cheeseburger cannot exist outside of a highly developed, post-agrarian society. It requires a complex interaction between a handful of vendors — in all likelihood, a couple of dozen — and the ability to ship ingredients vast distances while keeping them fresh. The cheeseburger couldn't have existed until nearly a century ago as, indeed, it did not."

Waldo Jaquith

A cheeseburger is the ultimate symbol of community.