Readings, signings, and other events vaguely literary for Sunday, July 12, 2009

inseminating-the-elephant

2:00 PM – Lucia Perillo: Inseminating the Elephant
SPL Central Library, Microsoft Auditorium

first, there’s the matter of the enema, which ought to come
as no surprise. Because what the news brings us
is often wheelbarrows of dung — suffering,
with photographs. And so long as there is suffering,
there should be also baby elephants — especially this messy,
headlamp-lit calling-forth. The problem lies
in deciding which side to side with: it is natural
to choose the giant rectal thermometer
over the twisted human form,
but is there something cowardly in that comic swerve?

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