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- cooking delicious things and interacting with the sunshine in central america, sometimes making photos, sometimes getting used to head high waves that go left while working on my version of coastal CR cuisine.
On Tour
ReplyDeleteWhen the radio host said, Now tell us again
who you are, I knew I was in trouble.
Flesh becomes flesh, I said. I was just guessing.
I could see he was disappointed. I'll get you a printout,
I said, of my DNA. I was clutching at straws.
My dentist will have on file some X-rays.
He looked disappointed again, my radio host.
I'm a cousin,
I said, to the chimpanzee, with whom you might be
familiar.He glanced at the clock on the studio wall.
You have written a book, he prompted, despairing.
Yes and no, I said. Who is it, or what, writes the book?
Maybe I'm just a transmitter.
He felt better. I was talking radio talk. You must rush out
and buy this new volume, he said. Not to me. To his listeners.
As for himself, he said, he wasn't much of a reader.