CarrollBlog

He was telling me about the new car he's buying. The only extra he had ordered was a television set mounted in the dashboard where the navigation system is usually found. I thought that odd because he never has anyone else in his car but himself. I said that. He told me one of the great pleasures of his life at the end of a day is to sit in the car in front of his house and listen to music on the sound system. Now he wanted to expand that by watching TV in his new car and maybe sometimes get a burger and eat dinner in there while watching the news or a favorite early evening show. As he talked on, I found myself unconsciously tilting my head to one side like a dog when it hears a very high pitched whistle. What this man was saying was so odd to my sensibilities-- eating dinner in the car while watching tv there-- that it was like a dog hearing a sound high and impossible.
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just in from JdT:

"Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash." - Leonard Cohen