Mark Sussman
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Excerpt from a Work in Progress (Coming Along Fine, Thanks)

A half-coherent murmur drifts up from the back of the bus. Forced to find a position between the impending Gaza invasion’s moral aporia and a night at Big Ben, I choose the bulwark of a temporary, recalcitrant silence.

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