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Les Murray: The Biplane Houses (Paperback, 2008, Farrar, Straus and Giroux) No rating

This is Les Murray's first new volume of poems since Poems the Size of Photographs …

Lifestyle by Les Murray

In the stacked cities they dance the Narrow Kitchen barista, barista! we go to wear black.

barista, baritsa! will you cook in your kitchen? will you drink in your suit? will you come on the Net?

Once it was unions now it's no carbohydrates, no fats, then no proteins barista, barista!

In the tall cities barista, barista! world is not made of atoms world is made of careers

The Biplane Houses by  (Page 65)

This offends my sensibilities 😅 I have hope that we will break with the worldview described here.

@josh

I don’t want to be a spice store.
I don’t want to carry handcrafted Marseille soap,
or tsampa and yak butter,
or nine thousand varieties of wine.
Half the shops here don’t open till noon
and even the bookstore’s brined in charm.
I want to be the one store that’s open all night
and has nothing but necessities.
Something to get a fire going
and something to put one out.

from I Don’t Want to Be a Spice Store by Christian Wiman

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/01/i-dont-want-to-be-a-spice-store