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Bold Stroke

I have always said
that Mister Green-
jeans has a late
lunch with the
Stepford Twins,
paints the times
with a rather
large brush.
I never knew
that such
broad
general-
izations
had Rocky
elope with
Bullwinkle
to (Viva!)
Las Vegas,
opened the
long-clogged
infrastructure
of vessels that
at some dim
point in mem-
ory made like
a traffic jam
in which for
a decade I
breathe and
the blood
doesn’t get
to my brain;
floodgates
that some-
how man-
age to say
yes to no-
stalgia
again

and

again.