From Gene’s Notebook
- Hispanic man tells me that whites up in the Rockies would call him a wetback. He’d say to them, “You’re wetter than I am! I crossed a river; you crossed an ocean.”
- Friend tells me that he votes on the following: “If I’d like coffee with the candidate he or she gets [...]

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From Gene’s Notebook
She reads hours into the night, her lamp dim.
She turns the lamp off, and I still sleep. But a grey film, checked with white, flashes, and then glides across my sleep.
Where, exactly, is it? Why is it there?
Then, comfort, as I sense the final curtain will contain that grey and white …
Eugene “Gene” [...]

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From Gene’s Notebook
…and two cats, side by side, were at the edge of the small park, nibbling grass, resting on their fours, mellow cats they were ….
…three former students, in and out of jail, with one definitely in jail with a little more than a year to go, don’t get time to chill in [...]

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