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Show essay, to try, from exagiare, to weigh out, examine I was eleven and watching the Galloping Gourmet with his British-Australian accent and his glass of wine learning how to get juice out of a lemon by rolling it hard on the counter when the doorbell rang my hair around cans to make it straight the man next door, his receding hair combed back erminea, the weasel whose fur turns from brown to white in winter asked if anyone else were home I said no edentate, lacking teeth asked if he could come in electric, from Greek, elektron, amber, because it produces sparks when rubbed I said no, I'm sorry euphemism, to speak with good words we stood eye to eye eutrophic: a body of water with so much mineral & organic matter the oxygen is reduced until I slowly shut the door in his face Eve, from Hebrew, living pushing with both hands |