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Talking to a close friend
on the phone a few days ago I said
You are obsessed with your kids
and she said that was an insult.
Obsession she explained
is a negative word. I have many
obsessions I replied though
I didn’t recite them.
Ask other people she suggested
and when we hung up the phone
I asked 8 strangers
sitting in Verdi Park
on 72nd and Broadway
what they thought about the word
and every one of those 8 strangers
told me a few of their
particular obsessions. Later
in my Penn South class
I told them the story.
One of the writers
said she wasn’t surprised
about the responses of strangers.
Try the question
in Akron, Ohio. Now
I want to go to Akron and ask.
I see a list in the making
Actually a history of it...