2011 Issue - Santa Fe Community College
2011 Issue - Santa Fe Community College
2011 Issue - Santa Fe Community College
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Ed From the Garage<br />
Stops In to Talk Philosophy<br />
by Trent Busch<br />
“The tool you order is<br />
never the same in person:<br />
take this wrench here, as<br />
advertised on TV<br />
able to loosen the hind<br />
quarter of a moose, a limp,<br />
pussy-levered fidget<br />
that couldn’t jack the nuts<br />
off a sixty-seven car;<br />
“just as the person you<br />
get is never the same tool,<br />
whoever he or she<br />
happens to be—I name<br />
no one in particular,<br />
say Lucille Ball, maybe,<br />
or W.H. Auden, huddled<br />
up little roundbacks with<br />
dip-snuff mouths in a bar.”<br />
Now wait a minute, I look<br />
at him, W.H. Auden<br />
“Hey, man, never think I<br />
don’t read my novels;<br />
or that big-boobed Lara<br />
game on the new Playstation:<br />
I’d like to see her climb<br />
up on my roof without<br />
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