{"id":3567,"date":"2005-01-24T14:57:54","date_gmt":"2005-01-24T18:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2005\/01\/24\/the-only-empty-seat\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:58:02","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:58:02","slug":"the-only-empty-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2005\/01\/24\/the-only-empty-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"the only empty seat"},"content":{"rendered":"

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eyeing the spot<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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where our bumpers bumped–<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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snow in his thick eyebrows<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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coffee shop . . . <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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      the only empty seat<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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      still warm<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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mourning dove<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“schoolBrooks” Randy Brooks<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A>, from School’s Out<\/EM><\/A> (Press Here, 1999)<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/DIV>
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by dagosan<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/A>:<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/EM><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/FONT>  <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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staring match out my window —<\/DIV>
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I blink first<\/DIV>
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the squirrel scampers<\/DIV>
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full-moon stroll<\/DIV>
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after the snowstorm —<\/DIV>
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                                  <\/FONT>[Jan. 24, 2005]<\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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one-breath pundit<\/STRONG><\/EM><\/FONT><\/A> <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“tinyredcheck”  Over at <\/FONT>haikupoet.com<\/FONT><\/A>, Paul and Mary Mena have a nice new look,<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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and more great photo-haiku combos.  The <\/FONT>last one<\/FONT><\/A>, reminded me why<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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I often dislike buses and elevators, so I penned:<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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still here
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                                [dagosan, Jan. 24, 2005]<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/EM><\/DIV>
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\"tiny You can catch me proselytizing about <\/FONT>Small Claims Reform<\/FONT><\/A>, over at \"fr<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Crime & Federalism<\/EM> today.  It might sound <\/FONT>familiar<\/FONT><\/A><\/FONT> to our visitors.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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mentioned <\/FONT>enjoying his <\/FONT>new book, When <\/STRONG><\/A><\/EM><\/FONT>Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/A><\/EM> <\/FONT>  It’s<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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only one sentence: “More people write poetry than read poetry.”<\/EM>   I still like the book.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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at the scene and on her weblog.  <\/FONT>Walter Olson manages<\/FONT><\/A> not to mention tort reform (but, <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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eyeing the spot where our bumpers bumped– snow in his thick eyebrows     coffee shop . . .       the only empty seat       still warm     mourning dove returns to the porch rail         new snow fluffs off       “schoolBrooks” Randy Brooks, from School’s Out (Press Here, 1999)     […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-Vx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13399,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3567\/revisions\/13399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}