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Thrusting from the head of Picasso’s goat are bicycle handlebars. They don’t represent anything, but they are goat’s horns, as night is a black bat, metaphorically. Come into the garden…

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Foiling the urine police

Reaganomics with a human face

Kitchen Spanish

Onward Christian singles

The geography of gender

Interpreting Palestine

Matchless tobacco

The last mama-on-a-couch play

Pinned

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Tourists in hell

Spring-shock

Maasai

The Americas

Management among thieves

The politics of toothpaste

The fine print

How nit-picking regulations get that way

I Know You’re Out There

Not-Kochisms

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Reflections on Bullshit

Velocity of Money

A visit with Yevtushenko

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The red cocoon

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The Action of Metaphor

March 1987

Debug