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February 05, 2004

Who Can Show Me a "Vows" Parody Site Now?

by Ron Hogan

I hate the New York Times Metropolitan Diary with a pure blue flame of loathing, yet I can often be found breaking open Monday's Metro section just to see how banally twee the current week's entries are. Black Table has the cure for what ails me:

In the fish line at Zabar's
I see my death.
"Seventy-five?" calls the man.
"Seventy-six?"
He glares.
"Seventy-six," I cry
And show my ticket:
Charon's fare.

The sharp knife
Cuts the last slices --
translucent, like my skin! --
From the Nova carcass.
And I,
A woman of a certain age
Ride the crosstown bus home
To die.

And if that weren't enough, as noted a few days previously (when his publicist sent me a nice email), Dan Kennedy, author of Loser Goes First, also edits an online microzine called ReallySmallTalk.com that offers up a slightly more subtle tweak of the M.D. style with a degree of hipness. Not laugh-out-loud funny, but consistently amusing nonetheless.

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