I’m tired. Tired of driving and making car conversation. All I want is a shower and a milkshake from the Dairy Queen we just blew past. I know I wanted to go somewhere for Spring Break that wasn’t all beaches and beer and frat boys, but driving a thousand miles on a Zen mission to visit a dead guy’s house isn’t my dream vacation either. Even if that dead guy was responsible for “Suspicious Minds.”

My ex-boyfriend the poet despised seagulls. “The pigeons of the sea,” he called them. “Mean and dirty animals. Even Gary Snyder didn’t like them, and he was a nature lover if there ever was one.”

Carole Maso
Break Every Rule

Break every rule, read every page.  Maso's love for language is profound and moving.  Our advice?  Don't read it cover to cover, but instead pick a page and read it over and over.  Then, the next day, pick another page, and so on until you've read it all.  It works.  That's how powerful Maso's words are.  Just a page's worth will leave you in awe. 

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