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Day three of Best of the Web 2010 brings some poetry to the mix: “The Reckoning,” by Leigh Stein, and “Great White,” by Julie Platt. I want to frame both of these and hang them on my wall. Enjoy today’s Stories/Poems of the Day, and somebody get me some Matzo ball soup, pretty please.

from “The Reckoning” (via The Scrambler):

“In the darkness, one of us will

clandestinely reach for another. Someone 

will disrupt the silence to remark on its totality,

and in the morning we’ll find that he’s left

with his rucksack and two jars of peanut butter

in search of the noise of yesterday. We’ll lose more

this way, to nostalgia, than famine or disillusionment.”

from “Great White” (via Gold Wake Press - page five):

“In the highest of three stacked attics, I find a paperback Jaws with a safety pin through its first twenty pages, sealing off a scene where a man slides his hands up a woman’s sandy suit and she, a little drunk, leads him down to screw in the water.”