11/25/02
Meetings on the Road, IV:
Diverse Desires
“Do you live on this block?” a woman asked,
her head skewed like a white-chocolate cherry
on cake. Her mansion, on whose lawn she basked,
was, to the buildings beyond, contrary.When I named my distant community,
she tittered of its quaint reputation
and extolled her city’s diversity,
with its diverse — ahem — recreation.She’d stopped me, as I’d walked by, to request
that I reserve her a room (off Main Street),
in which to entertain a “cross-town guest.”
She laughed when I questioned, “Why so discreet?”And if her guest proved not shrewdly supine?
“Who’d believe his word — or yours — over mine?”
11/18/02 The Loose Leg of Western Society’s Table (Religion)
11/11/02 Knickknacks, Souvenirs, and Bylines (Life)
11/04/02 Voting: Finally Becoming an Urgent Cause (Government)
10/28/02 Freedom to Mourn; Freedom to Be Warned (Religion)
10/21/02 The Writer’s Autumn Leaves (Life)
10/14/02 Seasoning the Balance (Life)
10/07/02 Fundamentalism by Any Other Name (Religion)
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