<div class="line">at least until the end of the first semester,</div>
<div class="line">who&#8217;s going to yank the sheet from the mattress,</div>
<div class="line">click the nubs of new bicuspids,</div>
<div class="line">if you&#8217;re not around to dream?</div>
<div class="line"></div>
<div class="line">When your dolls escape into their miniskirts,</div>
<div class="line">and the night improvises on its black guitar,</div>
<div class="line">who&#8217;ll be left to ask for water, have to pee,</div>
<div class="line">have to pee and ask for water?</div>
<div class="line"></div>
<div class="line">Now whose friends will want to sleep over?</div>
<div class="line">(While the rest of us are sleep with.)</div>
<div class="line">Bunk beds, big plans, all that teeter-totter chatter,</div>
<div class="line">who&#8217;s going to fart, guffaw and giggle,</div>
<div class="line">need one more blanket, five more minutes, please?</div>
<div class="line"></div>
<div class="line">When the subs dive, the searchlights flare,</div>
<div class="line">and our doors, half-open, suddenly close,</div>
<div class="line">who&#8217;s going to be in the next room snoring?—</div>
<div class="line">a few mumbles, an occasional grunt,</div>
<div class="line">so we&#8217;ll know what is safe and what is here.</div>


Considering Metal Man (as a Template for World Peace)

Man with Birds and Bread

Now That You’re Gone

<p style="text-align: justify;">        From the start He-Got-It got it, perhaps because he came from a long line of indefinite pronouns.<br />        Good morning, sweetie, said his Mother, I-Take-It-You-Agree. Darling, even though you get it, I will get it for you the rest of your life.<br />        Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, said his father, You-Can’t-Avoid-It. I hate it when you help him get it. He’s got to learn to work for it or he’ll never get anywhere.<br />        And so it went. Knocked in all directions by I-Take-It-You-Agree and You-Can’t-Avoid-It, so much so that some nights He-Got-It couldn’t recall what he was getting, what he had got. Then came the day his mother gave birth to smiling twin girls: It-Must-Be-Love and Isn’t-It-Adorable. Suddenly, it was too late to get it, hide it or run from it. And so he changed his name to Make-It-A-Double.</p><figure class="wp-block-audio"><audio controls src="https://admin.rattle.com/audio/WardQuestion.mp3"></audio></figure>

The Blessings of Dreams

MY INDEX OF SLIGHTLY HORRIFYING KNOWLEDGE

The Thing in Question

<p>No algebra or chemistry equations required. Each Sunday at precisely seven a.m., he walked through the automatic doors of the giant, automatic supermarket, pushing a shopping cart full of potatoes, milk, bread, cheese and peanut butter, napkins and chicken cutlets, dozens of items for the cupboards, freezer and fridge. As his truck was parked in a space alongside the cart hangar, where the orange sign read Return Shopping Carts Here, the rest was simple. Removing each item from the cart he carefully stacked the heaviest ones on the bottom, the light ones on the top, building a small pyramid of perishable food on the asphalt. Smiling at such architecture (a single lemon like the star atop a Christmas tree), he’d release the door to the truck’s empty bed, place the shopping cart on its side, push it in, shut the door, climb into the cab, twist the key, and–without hesitation, nostalgia, remorse—drive off.</p><figure class="wp-block-audio"><audio controls src=" https://admin.rattle.com/audio/WardHow.mp3"></audio></figure>

IN A BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY

Ways In, Ways Out

The Invention of How

<p>The bed sheet knows the vices I’ve slept.<br />How quickly it nooses my feet. Someone said,<br />we’re wrong men in a right world, all that<br />zigzag anger. Not quite—that’s another movie.<br />We’re wrong men who’ve built a wrong world,<br />each with a knapsack full of crushed glass,<br />cigarette butts. Photos of our children march<br />off the walls to a music only the dog can hear.<br />Rumpus minus cohesion equals mess. So many<br />weapons, I’m waiting for the plunger to make<br />the first move. Why should the water play fair.<br />Is that a cross around your neck or the last bird?<br />Things forgotten scream out for help in dreams<br />but not as loudly as things remembered.</p>
<p><em><small>Read by Tim</small></em></p><figure class="wp-block-audio"><audio controls src="https://admin.rattle.com/audio/WardRumpus.mp3"></audio></figure>

I WAS THE JUKEBOX

Meal Ticket

Rumpus, Cohesion, Mess

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Specify objects whose parent is in an array.

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Limit result set to products with a specific average rating. Must be between 1 and 5

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Product variation SKU (Stock-keeping unit)

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Connection between the ProductVariation type and the ProductVariation type

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Cursor used along with the "first" argument to reference where in the dataset to get data

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Unique cache key to be produced when this query is stored in an object cache. Default is 'core'.

Term ID to retrieve child terms of. If multiple taxonomies are passed, $child_of is ignored. Default 0.

True to limit results to terms that have no children. This parameter has no effect on non-hierarchical taxonomies. Default false.

Retrieve terms where the description is LIKE the input value. Default empty.

Array of term ids to exclude. If $include is non-empty, $exclude is ignored. Default empty array.

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Array of term ids to include. Default empty array.

Array of names to return term(s) for. Default empty.

Retrieve terms where the name is LIKE the input value. Default empty.

Array of object IDs. Results will be limited to terms associated with these objects.

Direction the connection should be ordered in

Field(s) to order terms by. Defaults to 'name'.

Whether to pad the quantity of a term's children in the quantity of each term's "count" object variable. Default false.

Parent term ID to retrieve direct-child terms of. Default empty.

Search criteria to match terms. Will be SQL-formatted with wildcards before and after. Default empty.

Array of slugs to return term(s) for. Default empty.

Array of term taxonomy IDs, to match when querying terms.

Whether to prime meta caches for matched terms. Default true.

Connection between the ProductVariation type and the TermNode type

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Shopping Cart
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