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chicago is the center of the planet meat. i am mostly a vegetarian, but have nothing against meat, so being at the center of the planet meat is neither good nor bad--it simply is.
we do mostly local organic food when we can--we have a csa for the summer which is lovely (most weeks) and supplement that with a range of other things--a nearby polish grocery, an excellent bread bakery in wicker park, a produce market 3 miles or so away, whole paycheck/trade joe's...
i rarely go into mainstream supermarkets any more. strangely, this (and not watching television) are the choices that lead me sometimes to think i dont live in the america other people do, but in a parallel dimension that floats about the frontiers of the Machine, kind of american non-america.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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