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Seeing the MGM lion roar,
Lise complains she’s seen this show before.
My father-in-law’s live-in caretaker,
Haitian, tout douleur,
She knows Seventh-Day Adventist lore,
The perfidy of men, how to cure
Oppressive itching. Her
Cooking doesn’t please him anymore,
But he likes her lilting French, her hair
And gentle hands, her living soapy spoor.
David H. Freedman on smartphone apps and the perfected self, Mark Bowden on being in the dumb kids' class, James Parker on Glenn Beck, Isaac Chotiner on P. G. Wodehouse, and more
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