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Is this love, now that the first love
has finally died, where there were no impossibilities?
                                      —Frank O’Hara

Nobody died.  Jimmy
Kimmel’s long, raw
obituary for his best
friend and bandleader.

Finding out that Alice
Notley passed months
ago, and either I didn’t
know or don’t remember

knowing.  Does resusci

tating my memory make 

me boring?  Not that not

remembering is exciting.

It is currently twenty days
until my next paycheck.