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by Brian Kevin Originally published in Colorado Review, Summer 2010 Singe-page, #longreads version Return to songsprimarily.com for .pdf and streaming JACKET Within every collection of vinyl…
LENGTH: 52 minutes (13030 words)
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A Memorial Divides Survivors

At a recent dedication ceremony for a Peoples Temple memorial in Oakland, Kathy Barbour, a survivor of the 1978 massacre, knelt on the lawn of Evergreen Cemetery to look…
PUBLISHED: June 2, 2011
LENGTH: 2 minutes (504 words)
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Moby-Duck: Or, the Synthetic Wilderness of Childhood

Let’s draw a bath. Let’s set a rubber duck afloat. Look at it wobbling there. What misanthrope, what damp, misty November of a sourpuss, upon beholding a rubber duck afloat, does not feel a crayola ray of sunshine brightening his gloomy heart? Graphically, the rubber duck’s closest relative is not a bird or a toy but the yellow happy face of Wal-Mart commercials. A rubber duck is in effect a happy face with a body and lips—which is what the beak of the rubber duck has become: great, lipsticky, bee-stung lips. Both the happy face and the rubber duck reduce facial expressions to a kind of pictogram. They are both emoticons. And they are, of course, the same color—the yellow of an egg yolk or the eye of a daisy, a shade darker than a yellow raincoat, a shade lighter than a taxicab.
SOURCE:Harper's
PUBLISHED: Jan. 1, 2007
LENGTH: 77 minutes (19297 words)
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