The Past “Ain’t that the curse of the second hand” (Mark Heard) My mirror today was time, with her unexplained folding each time I recollect the reason Grandma lives in Oklahoma, I eat cheerios without milk, and where the purple-knit scarf came from “Mad World” looped as I remembered, credence bestowed, not to the absurdity of answers, but Of Time’s erasal Of them all.
08 March 2008
"Harvey and I sit in the bars... have a drink or two... play the juke box. And soon the faces of all the other people they turn toward mine and they smile. And they're saying, "We don't know your name, mister, but you're a very nice fella." Harvey and I warm ourselves in all these golden moments. We've entered as strangers - soon we have friends. And they come over... and they sit with us... and they drink with us... and they talk to us. They tell about the big terrible things they've done and the big wonderful things they'll do. Their hopes, and their regrets, and their loves, and their hates. All very large, because nobody ever brings anything small into a bar. And then I introduce them to Harvey... and he's bigger and grander than anything they offer me. And when they leave, they leave impressed. The same people seldom come back; but that's envy, my dear. There's a little bit of envy in the best of us." Elwood P. Dowd, from Harvey
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