Taking Liberties, and: Housekeeping Progress

23 SCULLY JAMES SCULLY TAKING LIBERTIES Here it comes quoting (sort of) Voltaire but Voltaire's point was to let misery speak, not be tongue-tied pieces on the rack where was that meaning lost? this one puts its foot down: in Greensboro Skokie Salt Lake City Decatur Chattanooga Buffalo through blood flaming crosses firebombs, untouched this one clears the way, greases the rails for Nazis, Klan, academic fascists 24 THE MINNESOTA REVIEW stiff upper lip screaming "I may disagree with what they say (they? what do they say?) but I'll defend to the death their right to say it" and *yes' we cry, yes of course but whose death whose death do you defend their right to really now HOUSEKEEPING PROGRESS Two steps forward one step back of course she comes and goes like spring weather water now standing now muddy, what's the turmoil about? a bubble of silt now clear and not to be complained of 25 SCULLY Here is dust under the dresser but no one lives there and here moist yellow cake the draft through the walls perks up all nose, expansive, it feels prosperity is just around the corner AND HERE'S THE OLD BEAR, YOU sniffing the sharp damp last of February, how will the water be this time and where? Anyway here you go washing a dishVi carting a clothes hamper down to the cellar near 19 years progress a long way from the beginning bumbling into this wood the wood now a household and somehow you have never have never sly one learned how to cook ...