“Intuition” by Andrew Merton

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(featuring the late Burt Lancaster in a supporting role)

The six of them squeeze into a booth in a seedy diner just outside
.      Newark:

click for more infoa balding child dressed as a monk

a woman with eels for fingers

an ambulance driver munching a ladder

an alligator wrapped in a boa

the late Burt Lancaster

and a swarthy, mustachioed man
with ammunition belts crisscrossing his chest,
who gazes fearfully at his companions
before revealing himself
as the great-grandson of Pancho Villa
and muttering through clenched teeth:
One of you spent time as a violist.
I can just feel it.

–Andrew Merton,
Evidence that We Are Descended from Chairs
Accents Publishing

Andrew MertonAndrew Merton has been a political reporter and columnist for the Gloucester (Massachusetts) Times, The Boston Herald Traveler and the Boston Globe, and a contributing editor with Boston Magazine. His articles and essays have also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, Ms. Magazine, Yankee Magazine and The Boston Phoenix. His book Enemies of Choice was published by Beacon Press in 1980, and his anthology In Your Own Voice: A Writer’s Reader was published by Harper Collins in 1995. His poetry has appeared in The Alaska Quarterly Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Powhatan Review, Paper Street, The Comstock Review, Silk Road, Third Wednesday, The American Journal of Nursing and elsewhere. He teaches writing at the University of New Hampshire.

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