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SARAH Sarah sits bemused. She is waiting for life to tell her the thing she needs to know in order to get on with it. She sits very still....

TRANSCENDANCE What I'd really like in my old age is an allnight diner across the street, breakfast twentyfour hours, good coffee, smok...

KAY She's been in the neighborhood for years. Sometimes she sleeps in. Sometimes she sleeps out. Once her and a guy named J.C. (it...

AUTUMN SONG It's a time of people gone: Helen, the street dancer, dead, Melvin, old black man in the neighborhood almost as long as me...

SENSITIVITY TRAINING Here's how it went down: I was sitting near the bar with Big Gus when the jukebox started playing "Plaisir D...

Painting by Mark Rothko 1949 ROTHKO I think he knew he was on the edge. He hated it but it was the only place he felt at home. But the edg...

Painting by Henry Wallis LIGHT MOTHER, DARK MOTHER Death has thick fingers and ancient eyes and will eat you for breakfast and spit out th...