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I live on the moon. There are many things to do on the moon but there is only me here. I uttered “adios” as I turned my back on the world and you all and left earth. Pushing off to the moon carried only familiar feelings by that point, wasn’t even exciting anymore. It was the same trip, but this time I’d decided I would never return.
Saturdays I clean the apartment and Sundays I …
Caretaker o’ caretaker
who live just upstairs—
when a fortnight ago
the plumber you did summon
to set right again that leak
ever recurring and common—
when he gave you the diagnosis
grave, and costly, as these poor pipes had dread
that the whole unit was in shards
and so off to Menards!
for a new shower head.
Did you, o’ fair caretaker
commit utility mutiny of the highest degree?
and with a nod to the man, and his wrenches
knowingly betray me and my ‘mate—
leaving us for the …
Tom Waits fans rejoice; Heath Ledger fans pay your respects. Both, for sure, should head to the theater to see director Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus. Yes, it is rated PG-13, but here Gilliam has successfully created a reflective, mature, and narratively sophisticated movie that didn’t need to tone itself down to garner the box office boosting rating from the MPAA. It is only showing at the Lagoon Theatre in Uptown, and …