"The Civil War - the War of Northern Aggression - was still a vivid reality for some people, my grandmother included. The mere existence of Yankees was a difficult proposition for her. . . . Once, when I asked her what was wrong with Yankees, she said, 'They put sugar on their meat.'"
- James Conaway, Memphis Afternoons
from Startles (an ongoing sequence)
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*from *Startles
The curb says, do not park here. It says, storm drain below, says palm tree
above, says graveyard, says take my picture. And I do: narro...
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