PAUL HOSTOVSKY's Unlikely Loves : Battling the Wind and Everything Else
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PAUL HOSTOVSKY's Unlikely Loves
Battling the Wind and Everything Else	
My neighbor the one with the flagpole and the flag, and the pickup truck and the patriotic bumper sticker and the perfect lawn, and the leaf-blower with the power pack— never seems to see me when I wave to him. In fact, I am trying to get his attention right now, but his eyes are on the enemy, the leaves. He is aiming the long barrel of his leaf-blower at them, and blowing them away. But the wind is counting its money and throwing it away all over his lawn again. He is Sisyphus pushing one red leaf or another up the berm of a perfect lawn forever. And I feel sorry for him, the way I might feel sorry for a large carnivorous bird in a shrinking ecosystem on the nature channel. I know when he looks at me he sees a guy who is half-assedly, half-heartedly raking the leaves around on his disgrace-of-a-lawn the way a kid pushes the peas around on his dinner plate with his fork, trying to make it look like there are fewer peas than before, when really there are still the exact same number of peas; and he sees the leaves messing up his lawn as my leaves, because his leaves are all in order— he sees to that. So the ones that are crossing the border and have no right to be here and should just go back to where they came from, must be mine. I see this all written on his face as he grits his teeth and stares the dancing leaves down, then blows them up over the edge of his property. But they keep on dancing back again because there's a party going on here, and the wind is counting its money and throwing it away. So I walk right up to him— I get right in his face so he can't not see me, and I wave hello. He disengages his leaf-blower, after revving it a few times first at the intersection of our meeting. And I say to him, "I've been trying to get your attention." And he says, "You got it." And I say, "How you doing?" And he says, "Battling the wind and everything else." And I say, "I can see that." And he says, "How you doing?" And I say, "Good. Good."
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Mr. Gordon was perhaps a little tipsy at the awards ceremony, perhaps a little scornful of the football coach's ode to yardage, the basketball coach's paeons to the MVPs, the music teacher's touting her flautist, the science teacher his scion of Einstein. So when Mr. Gordon got up to give the literary magazine award to me, he lurched a little drunkenly, swayed a little imperceptibly, steeply rocking in his moment on stage. Not to be outdone, he said in his opinion I was probably the greatest poet writing in English anywhere today— and a gasp went up from the high school auditorium, then murmurs of admiration and disbelief and mutiny spread through the audience as I rose to accept Mr. Gordon's slightly exaggerated handshake. Then he kissed me on the mouth, and raised my hand above my head in the manner of referees and prizefighters, grinning glaringly over at the football coach, and nodding trochaically.
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Love Affair
making no sound she moves through hearts sky eager blood consents
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