Reading Lessons

by Ravi Shankar


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​Although bulbous caricatures dropped eagerly from gibbon hands, I juggled knick-knacks, laughing, mentioning nothing outsize, particularly questions regarding simian talent, until visibility waned. Xeric Yankeeisms zinged again. 

Absorbable bonnets cause drastic etiolation, fiery girls’ hues impersonating jonquil kissed lightly matzo, nearly opalescent, pale, querulous, rimy. So the unrepentant vulgarians won! Xenophobes yoked zeroes afterwards. 

Addenda: Bombay costs damn enough for gods, hear? Import jodhpurs knowingly laminated. Mollycoddled namesake opens purse quietly. Risk suffering thorns. Use vestries wisely. X-ray your zygotes always.

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Pushcart Prize winning poet and Tufts University professor Ravi Shankar is the author/editor of 18 books including the award winning memoir Correctional.


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