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Peyote buttons, also called “Japanese Buttons,” cost $2.5o per thousand f.o.b. Los Ojuelos in 1909; they were shipped by Tex-Mex rail from Aguilares to Laredo for distribution to reservations north of the Red River
You will not agree with or like all of it, but at least then you can decide what speaks to you honestly and thoughtfully, or what reeks like a late-night skunk or the cow shit you remember from your youth
What they really left behind is what they always have – the wonder that ever I could love anyone as much as I do those two nenas
Because it takes nearly fifty years for light to travel between Draconis and Earth, he/she/it/they would see us not as we are but as we were in about December 1972
The throwing arm smooth and fluid as a whip, the ball slung on a taut line, the cowhide hitting the leather of the glove with a solid thwack
Good news at the rain gauge — 4.5 inches
The stench of moral superiority drifts from the complaints of Justices Thomas and Roberts
Ilya Kaminsky: “We Lived Happily during the War, and when they bombed other people’s houses, we // protested / but not enough, we opposed them but not / enough.”
Seditionist arrestees face aftermath of their compulsions; the 725 are but a fraction of the 2,000-plus rioters
If we pay attention, we’ll find a glimmer slipping through the limbs, a bit of light that might cause us to see the truth beyond our own nose and with a clarity and steadfastness not afforded by blind belief or ignorance or excuses. Maybe. Just maybe it casts a trace of truth against the written house.