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"A cunt hair away
from perfection,

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deadwood, a zen-like
transformation

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of consciousness.

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But I know as much about zen
as David Milch does opera--

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nothing, or next to it.

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Once, Li-Young Lee said
"writing is yogic,"

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but I quit yoga, too.

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People hold themselves to
higher moral standards when

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they feel like
they're being watched,

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even by eyes that are fake.

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But do the words I, eye,
have the same effect?

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What makes cunt the
most offensive word?

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A C, a U, an N, and a T that
signify the last frontier

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of American language Milch is
forging, as though Swearingen

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himself riding into the sunset.

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Get it?

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I looked at my family history.

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My great uncle Ebenezer
was a blacksmith,

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and another, JP Hoy, a
detective in Minneapolis,

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who solved the famed case
of the Murdered Dressmaker.

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One obituary spoke of surviving
life among the savages--

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the savages of South Dakota.

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My great grandfather owned
a hardware store in Ravello

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in the late 1800s that looked
just like Seth and Saul's,

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which reminds me of when I
saw James Gandolfini on TV

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in the crowd at the Macy's
Thanksgiving Day parade,

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smiling nothing
like Tony Soprano.

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A wet snow fell.

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Men dressed as inflatable
jolly elephants strutted

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to commemorate the first
parade 80 years ago, when

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real elephants marched.

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The unredeemable bookended
by sentimentality.

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That's what Barbara
said about Tony."

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