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Gene Lewis Perry If life were like fairy tales, I'd have been devoured by trolls long ago.
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A student who wishes to obtain a beard exception must visit a BYU Student Health Center doctor by appointment (422.5156). The doctor will fax his recommendation. The student then needs to come to the Honor Code Office to fill out some paperwork and receive the letter allowing the growth of the beard. …
It has been nearly four years since Roger Ebert lost his lower jaw and his ability to speak. Now television’s most famous movie critic is rarely seen and never heard, but his words have never stopped.
The truest thoughts are those that contradict themselves,
she said, and laughed at the idea that snow melts
into ice melts into water melts into air
melts into our lungs, where we cannot follow.
We cannot follow. We are bundled and hesitant.
We take hostage of our heat, and we repeat
the truest lie: that a thing being impossible
is more reason why it must be done.
This smoothed out world, coated in soft bones,
might snow us over if we hadn’t learned
that blankness always deceives, and
fresh starts are continuations in disguise.
Pennies, now with Captain America shields for some reason, still totally useless.
Some of these are pretty good. I especially like “Whatever This Is” and “International Synergy.”
I think I’ve noticed something about these Google Voice transcriptions: I see an authorial sensibility taking form, like a face emerging from a cloud bank. These transcriptions can be read as poetry.
11 voters pass Crutcho’s $1M school bond | NewsOK.com
CRUTCHO — With less than a dozen votes, the Crutcho School District has passed a $1 million bond issue. On Tuesday, 11 people voted yes on a proposal that school officials said will pay for new rest-rooms, updated plumbing and roof repairs. Three people voted against the proposal.
We like to imagine “sex offenders” as irredeemable monsters, but situations like this are far more common than what you see on Law & Order: SVU.
As a teenager, Ricky Blackman carried an Oklahoma driver’s license with the words “sex offender” stamped in red below his picture. His crime? Having sex with a 13-year-old girl when he was 16. The offense occurred when he lived in Iowa, and the label followed him to Oklahoma.
