I just spent six and a half hours driving — the sun somehow in my face while heading south — with a vacuum cleaner in the trunk, a sick tortoise in the backseat, and a pile of clothes, sack of library books, and half-written paper on Louis Zukofsky riding shotgun. This is my life. It’s Thanksgiving. I need a drink — but don’t we all?
J.L. Wall
J.L. Wall is a native Kentuckian in self-imposed exile to the Midwest, where he teaches writing to college students and over-analyzes Leonard Cohen lyrics.
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Hope the tortoise feels better soon, and you got your drink. That’s a pretty swell song.Report