The Clerk Stacking Cans of Carrots in the Night

• Olive and Rosie and a bug you can't see but they do. I've always thought of Fleabus as a white cat, but she's orange compared to Olive. She's a canvas.
• The Art of the Abandoned. I had not heard of the Foundling Museum before, if I'm ever again in London it'll be to go.
• Apparition.
• When forgetting is the proper response.
• Love and desire is the proper response.
• On what we owe each other.
• Learning to live after Bernie Sanders.
• Why HRC has never apologized for welfare reform.
• 19 reasons the motherfucking Democrats will always be split.

• You know what? I bet a pint that neither Trump or Clinton are on the November ballot.
• Here, haikus

Trump's done he's aiming

for relegation many

huge his terms only

but Clinton's Putin's

puppet* It's a fucking Bush

Biden election

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* News breaks as I write

   Russians hacked Clinton's

   email/DNC

• The former will jump, the latter will be pushed.
• GOP elite and Trump.
• My governor is a motherfucking liar re: Trump. My motherfucking governor rallies his white support by shitting on Baltimore, the fuck.
• Delusion at the gastropub. On food and food politics.
• On Bruce Jay Friedman.
• Invisible Priest: Wallace Stevens and contemporary American poetry.
• Jim has asked me for help finding happy poems, I don't know any motherfucking happy poems, but I did remember Jane Kenyon's heartbreaking *Happiness,* posted below (and here many times before), it makes me cry every time.
• Nilsson born seventy-five years ago today.

HAPPINESS

Jane Kenyon

There’s just no accounting for happiness,

or the way it turns up like a prodigal

who comes back to the dust at your feet

having squandered a fortune far away.

And how can you not forgive?

You make a feast in honor of what

was lost, and take from its place the finest

garment, which you saved for an occasion

you could not imagine, and you weep night and day

to know that you were not abandoned,

that happiness saved its most extreme form

for you alone.

No, happiness is the uncle you never

knew about, who flies a single-engine plane

onto the grassy landing strip, hitchhikes

into town, and inquires at every door

until he finds you asleep midafternoon

as you so often are during the unmerciful

hours of your despair.

It comes to the monk in his cell.

It comes to the woman sweeping the street

with a birch broom, to the child

whose mother has passed out from drink.

It comes to the lover, to the dog chewing

a sock, to the pusher, to the basketmaker,

and to the clerk stacking cans of carrots

in the night.

                     It even comes to the boulder

in the perpetual shade of pine barrens,

to rain falling on the open sea,

to the wineglass, weary of holding wine.