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Taking a “core sample” of any given moment at all one finds — layers of history (of personal, local, world history); of physical feeling (of emotional feeling, of absence of feeling); of climactic, atmospheric changes; the motion of objects, the shine and diminishment of light, the depth and variety of shadow; the limitations of ones consciousness and knowledge, where these reach out but can’t grasp; the syncopation of silent things which may be seen in conjunction with invisible, audible or tangible things; the syncopation and coincidence in general of things; opinion, idea, the presence of Measure, of Intention, Reason, Imposture, Passion.

I was delighted to learn there was such a thing, having felt that informally I’ve been doing this for years. Job applications, business letters, government forms. Maybe the next logical step career-wise for me. Perhaps include not just people who don’t know English well but people who don’t know computers well. To seriously undertake it: make inroads in Amheric, Mongolian, Facebook, strengthen Spanish, ins and outs of Medicare/ Medicaid/ Unemployment, spread the word among my non-native speaking friends… Buy a van with a table? I think it makes sense to have a moving office and work out of parking lots but having an awning out front where you can set up a table. Offer lowkey cheap English language lessons: reading newspapers, discuss politics. “Will read your novel but it will cost you.” Ecrivain publique, a public writer — I like the ring of that. (Also: become notary public and a dozen other things like that. CPR certified, etc., totally ramshackle. Opposite of career track: certifications and a van.)

Imagining a straight Line between the two sole customers currently in the store; if bisected, the midpoint would be about a meter off the ground between table one and table two; and if extended, it would hit the new, perhaps not yet opened, Pilates Loft across the street.

Across the street: Landscaper, using extraordinary force, launches spade into the green patch within the tree guards repeatedly.

Customer ordered medium iced decaf latte and everything bagel with veggie cream cheese in person. Customer ordered portabello sandwich and grilled turkey sandwich over phone. Customer said strength contained in his dog’s forepaws was hard to believe. Customer ordered medium hot chocolate, large iced americano, and three bagels with butter (family going to renaissance fair) in person. Customer ordered small orange juice, small cider, large coffee, and a medium latte. (I recall that order extremely clearly now, but at the time, having ten open bagel faces in front of me, and wrestling with questions of what bagel spread was to go on which bagel face, I found myself confused as to which drink went with which size, though I’d just been told this, and told it again; and when I couldn’t recall the proper drink size, I suddenly started to question the proper drink type… as if all the bagels and all the drinks, which had formerly appeared in an orderly shelf in my mind, first to last, had now been tossed into a trash can of my mind, and I was looking into the can, which was filled with a lot of other things too, trying to discern concretely what was there and the proper order. As a result, I’d needed to ask him to repeat this fairly straightforward drink order several times.) Customer was army brat, had lived here fifty years since she was seventeen, wearing seasonal dress.

Customer became choked with emotion and teary-eyed as he translated in real time for attendant the lyrics to the Spanish language song he was listening to on youtube: “I call you but you won’t pick up the phone/ I know I made the mistake of my life.”

That moment when a customer’s hard-to-reconcile ideas about politics finally congeal into a well established political identification — oh so he is a Sanders supporter, oh so this is a Tea Party person. (I’d observe anecdotally this will seem usually to happen with people of your more extreme views to left and right who will dwell on the less commonly reported stories and whose ideas about things will seem to mirror each other at times — for instance, in support for Russia or in distrust of the Federal Reserve– making it hard to discern where they’re coming from. Another group in this category is immigrants who will sometimes seem to hold both left and right views, as I identify them, depending on the topic (eg. support for international institutions, left/ affirmative action, right). Conversely, and perhaps paradoxically, it is easier, on the basis of conversation alone, to discern the political identification of moderates, who will say the sorts of things, or the very things, that their proxies in government will say.)

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Sky with circles, parallels, trees, house fronts, blouse backs,
gum facets, interesting adages, verbs conjugated,
patch of grass with a Splenda resting on it:
between the fiberglass fence and the concrete walk
the emptied yellow paper packet of Splenda perched on the grass.

Mortality: how could that song I like continue to exist without me continuing to exist to enjoy it; how could I be dying when I’ve got an idea for a blog post; how could I be dying when I know the meaning of the word coprolite, which should be like a powerful life-affirming crystal in me always. A person cannot die as long as they have something so specific as that to hold onto, a powerful ward and charm against death. (As Death approaches, one merely recalls the word and its definition, whereupon Death staggers off like a vampire, arms in front of face, and you stand up to perform your usual duties.)

Trash cans put out in the snow. Beer cans upside down in the sink.

Area of melted snow: an area of underground cables or machinery, great knob of cables surrounding the machine.

Bit of ice that a car tire had cracked and split in two which my foot step reunited.

People shoveling at night before the freeze comes on: their cars on the street, their drives and walks.

The streams of salted water among the brown slush of the hill (the thin shimmering waves of it down the hill at night.)