Baer.baer: January 2011

Ralph Lemon: MOMA

She was wearing yellow pants

Ralph a yellow sock

We caught them in a moment

before that second sock comes off

Takes a lot to reach for that other sock:

desire, will, bending, grabbing, balancing, pulling

It can be utterly exhausting

There is panting

he searches

is there someone to help free the other foot

suffocation.

just listen, an entire body gasps

he finds her

the two collide

yellows fuse briefly

limbs tangle

but he will have to free the other foot himself

Ralph stood upstage

She was in the foreground

Task: Daily Dosage

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Mary Wisinski: January 25, 1923

Dean's Rendition (button story)

KATIE: Hey Dean, you look fantastic as usual.

DEAN: Oh this old thing? (looking down at himself) These are just RAGS! But I love your sweater!

KATIE: Thanks I love it too, I have all these buttons, it's nuts! Look, I even have buttons on the INSIDE!

DEAN: Wow, that must be hundreds of buttons. I've never seen so many on one sweater, they look like freckles.

KATIE: Freckles or acne?

DEAN: Freckles! You know what, I actually lost a button just like that...

KATIE: What they hell are you insinuating?

DEAN: Well, umm..I mean, since you have so many...maybe I could umm, I don't know, borrow one long term...?

KATIE: (sigh) Ok, but don't think I won't come looking for you if I lose one! (smiles, vivisects a button and gives it to Dean).

DEAN: Thanks Katie, you're the best ever!!

A Long term Loan

DEAN: Wow, that's a really great sweater.

KATIE: Oh gee, thanks. I like it too. It used to be Jim F's.

(Katie shows Dean the sweater's tag)

DEAN: Ah yes, Jim. I have a coat with the same buttons. Classic.

KATIE: They make the sweater. Just need a soft brown leather chair to sit in.

DEAN: Yeah, sadly I lost one of my buttons.

KATIE: Really, this one still has the extra one sewn on the inside. You want it?

DEAN: Really?

KATIE: Yeah, what good is it on the inside of a sweater?

DEAN: True.

(Katie removes extra inside button with scissors, Dean puts button in his pocket)

KATIE: I might need that back.

From William Byrd's Secret Diary:

May 23, 1710
I rose at 5 o'clock and read 2 chapters in Hebrew and some Greek in Amacreon. The children were a little better, thank God. I said my prayers and ate milk and strawberries for breakfast. I danced my dance. My daughter was very ill, but the boy had lost his fever, thank God.

June 16, 1710
I rose at 5 o'clock and drank some milk warm from the cow. I read a chapter in Hebrew and some Greek in Thucydides. I said my prayers and danced my dance. About 10 o'clock Captain Drury Stith and his wife came to make a visit, notwithstanding it was very hot.

June 17, 1710
I rose at 5 o'clock and drank some milk warm from the cow. I read a chapter in Hebrew and some Greek in Thucydides. I said my prayers and danced my dance About 8 o'clock Mr. Anderson came on his way over the river.

June 19, 1710
I rose at 5 o'clock and read chapters in in Hebrew nd some Greek in Thucydides. I drank some warm milk from the cow. I said my prayers and danced my dance. About 10 o'clock came Isham Randolph and Mr.Finney to see us.

June 21, 1710
I rose at 5 o'clock and drank milk from the cow. I read a chapter in Hebrew and some Greek in Thucydides. I said my prayers and danced my dance. My wife was disposed.

December 31, 1710
I rose about 7 o'clock and read a chapter in Hebrew and six leaves in Lucian. I said my prayers and ate boiled milk for breakfast. The weather continued warm and clear. I settled my accounts and wrote several things till dinner. I danced my dance.