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Did I tell you about the newlyweds who could not tell putty from Vaseline? Yes, my wife says, about 100 times. That’s the trouble, I say, you know every one of my stories and jokes, I need some new young woman to tell my stories to. You could try getting some new stories, my wife says. No, that’s no good. I’m too old for that, all that stuff happened when I was young. What I need is a fresh ear, some beautiful young girl who would laugh and think that maybe my stories were even profound and she’d hug me and say, Let’s go for a ski, and then go out dancing. And I’d say, Can’t we just stay in this afternoon, make a fire…? Then she’d say, Come on, don’t be an old fuddy-duddy. If you don’t want to come along I’ll go alone. Wait, I’d say. Did I tell you about the newlyweds…?
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Louis JenkinsLouis Jenkins’ most recent book is Tin Flag: New and Selected Prose Poems, from Will o’ the Wisp books, 2013. He and Mark Rylance, actor and former director of the Globe Theatre, London, co-wrote a stage production titled Nice Fish, based on Mr. Jenkins poems. The play premiered April 6, 2013 at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis and ran through May 18, 2013. The play will run in Boston MA in January 2015 and Brooklyn NY in February 2015. |
