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This book contains, among many other wonderful things, the greatest poem ever written about spring break, which begins, "I'm sixteen in the Bahamas. A drunk girl/ on a balcony in a sundress/ with a pina colada." Kasischke's verses walk that perfect Plathian line between the everyday--making macaroni and cheese, getting pulled over for speeding--and the eternal, the plainspoken and the lyrical, the comfortable and the abyss of loss that lies just beneath it: "All morning I try to kill a fly in the kitchen,/ but it isn't ready...
...bowl full of appropriate pasta (e.g. shells, spirals, macaroni...
...Army releases updates and expansions for America's Army three or four times a year, and to keep the programmers on point it holds events like these--they're known internally as green-ups--every few months. Over the course of three days, they eat MREs (the consensus: chili macaroni good, black bean and rice burrito very very bad), ride in Black Hawks ("That feeling has to be there," Bossant says. "We need that zoom!") and wander around a frozen meadow in the dark wearing night-vision goggles. One of the game designers noticed that the goggles throw off less...
Beyond five-ounce hamburgers and hot dogs, HUDS will be serving hot foods including New England clam chowder, macaroni and cheese and beef chili on this year’s expanded menu...
Though winless and Columbia have formed a macaroni-and-cheese-like word association in my head, I’m going to take the Lions over the Big Green at home. One reason is that Columbia is better than its 0-5 record would indicate. (I guess they couldn’t be worse). And the other reason is that Dartmouth suffered the ultimate indignity of getting blown out by Holy Cross at home...