In the mid-2010s there was a rash of online roundups where customers would review NYC bookstore bathrooms. The bookstore where I worked at the time never fared well in these reviews. By April of 2016, the bathroom and I were both fed up and decided to respond in kind. Four
I hated this quote on sight and for decades after, having not read the essay it opens and therefore assuming that it was the kind of saccharine “storytelling makes us HUMAN” kind of thing a poet would say. I’ve since done a full Uno Reverse on this line and
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