Tempest

For Ave­line de Rais Rubinshteyn she is stand­ing in thrall to the tempest she has noth­ing to lose but her hide she knows all the tricks and she’s seen all the hicks and she’s secretly crying inside her skin is a rock­ing horse palimpsest she has...

“We knew there were no weapons of mass destruc­tion over there; but Cor­etta knew there were weapons of mis­dir­ec­tion right down here.” Joseph Lowery at Cor­etta King’s funeral. Wow, nice work. Bush was *in* the audi­ence. Guess he does­n’t hear that dir­ectly...

Apostrophes

Aaaaargh. I can’t bear it any longer. I have just read about three posts from well edu­cated friends using apo­strophes in plurals. Please, please, please read back over what you’ve writ­ten and think about it: is the apo­strophe in place of some­thing? (don’t=do not,...