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Thursday, November 25, 2010

Bathroom Monologue: Thanks Anyway


They were pale and pink and puffy people. They wore too much and it did not keep them warm. Though they arrived on large boats, they did not return to them or sale away to wherever they were meant to live. Instead they dug at frozen ground, hunted drunkenly and starved sober. The Woman of Myth hollowed out a gourd and stuffed it with crops. She held it aloft, commanding, "Give us your poor and your tired."

2 comments:

  1. And life in 'the promised land' has never been the same since. You encapsulate a nice bit of history in those five sentences.

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