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If conjugal felicity could be
compared to the grand prize
in a lottery, they had won it
with the ticket they
purchased together
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This is the only picture
ReplyDeleteof your mother with a wide nose.
The year was 1946
Deleteand she was pregnant with
her first born: LINDA
There is an old wives' tale
that a female embryo
widens the nose
of its' carrier.
And you were born in 1949.
DeleteYes?
You know me well.
DeleteI was minus three years old
when this photo was taken
at (I believe) Ferndale, NY
There is absolutely, positively
no way my fetus could have produced
so much unmitigated happiness
in my parents.
Many relatives and friends
have seen this image but no one
described it more accurately than
my living sister.
She called it sensuous
Oh, by the way...
DeleteMACHADO dE Assis
was describing
a photograph of
his parents
What a co-inky-dink
DeleteYou are beginning
Deleteto sound too much like me
Then can I send you the bill
Deletefor the NYRBie 1000-page Omnibus
of Machado de Assis?
NO!!!
DeleteAnd no further comment
Unless you also get an omnibus
of DAWN POWELL