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9781592866212
Cardinal baseball leaks out of open garage doors as a drizzling rain whets the backyard intellects of working class Urbania. Somewhere along the way, the little engine that could grew up to become an aggressively out of control train. A herniated playground ball spinning out of round spawns the conjectural repercussions of geologic physics: For every (skyscraper) there is an equal and opposite (earthquake). Topic after topic, the local rail traffic whistles its emphasis, punctuating the poetic insights in this sequential collection. Dancing On The Inside consists of 56 capsulated conversations, 274 train whistles, five snap-snaps for the beat crowd, a handful of black and white pictures, a little color, and at least one pointed epithet. For a kinder, gentler”, war-crazed ‘civilization’, this is serious word play at its most cryptic fun…Hartig, Lowell is the author of 'Dancing on the Inside (The Backyard Tales)' with ISBN 9781592866212 and ISBN 1592866212.
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