20 April 1999
Anne Bargar
| I am standing in my kitchen listening to news of verdicts and corporate
decisions and the good times of your average celebrity. The good
times of your average celebrity have nothing to do with the prices of groceries,
yet I've heard more about your average celebrity than I have of the plight
of the people across town who might lose their jobs. I have nothing to
say to celebrities except, "stop taking up so much of the airwaves.
And the newsprint, while you're at it." I am standing in my kitchen
slicing mushroom and zuchinni, wanting to know exactly why bombs are dropping
on parts of the world that certainly never asked to be bombed. The
news that I want to hear somehow never manages to surface, leaving me exactly
where I was an hour ago, a week ago, a year ago.
Standing in my kitchen listening to the news and; with the cat walking across the top of the refrigerator and; with the faucet dripping because the landlord is too cheap to fix it and....... The fantasy is that, as I stand in my kitchen, I hear the news and
it is real.
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