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  • « droid » ➞ « druid »

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    The translator had probably not been familiar with Star Wars.〖  Found in translation  〗

  • « Bidoon » ➞ « Bedouin »

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    A violent mistranslation I still find amusing was with a poem titled 1965.〖  Found in translation  〗

  • No money off a dead woman’s body (& other poems)

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    « I like my tyrants like I like my heroes. That is, crushed by a giant chandelier. »

  • Coagulated soy juice

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    〖  A killed darling. 〗 Lucia Berlin belonged to a less sanctimonious age than ours.

  • Two palindromes

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    → → Pursuing / you lead me to come to the future.← ← coming to the future, I lead you / demanding.

  • The South Bronx did not exist

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    〖  A killed darling. 〗 Spoiler alert: it did.

  • Cheers!

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    A photograph found in Rome’s Porta Portese. The recumbent can also raise a glass.

  • Marx and the art of natural winemaking

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    The grapes are tiny, burnt to a crisp. It’s day two of the harvest, in late August — freakishly early in a year of drought and heat waves. What is…

  • Longing + debt

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    〖  A killed darling  〗 And — I failed. I replaced this paragraph.

  • Dinosaurs + dolphins

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    〖  A killed darling  〗 A joke format that endured for precisely one week.

  • A can-can dancer performs a Christmas tree

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    〖  A killed darling  〗 Being alone in a new city over the holidays was wonderful and, as it happened, not to be repeated.

  • An Odessa conga line

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    〖  A killed darling  〗 Back to work? Back to play? Hard to say.