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By Any Means Necessary
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8 B y a N y M E a N s N E C E s s a R y I was in such a dark mood that when the panhandler in the hotel hallway asked for change, I wanted to hand her a roll of paper towels from my rented room and tell her to roll her weakness in a sheet and smoke it. I can’t explain this. I want to change it. I want to shuffle adjectives: make it a fat hotel, a paper hallway —a sentence, a column, a couplet. If this fails, I wanted to tell her, braid a string of cicada screams into a throbbing amulet and hang it around your neck until I follow you, begging for music like that. I sent her away, then joined the circus for a beer at the bar, the band playing for one among the bums. ...