Middlebrow and I were rummaging in the library at work today and found this gem. It is actually by someone I have met who now runs the Utah Writing Project. It is from a 1973 textbook called Sentence Combining. At the time sentence combining was all the rage in teaching writing, and was supposed to improve students' intellectual capacity by helping them to learn to build complex sentences. I suppose the theory has some merit, but it was based on linguistic theories that writing teachers may or may not have understood very well. Ultimately methods like sentence combining were abandoned by the field and only diehard hippies use it now. Middlebrow and I read it outloud, and found "Rock Concert" quite poetic. I especially like the couplet "His voice was a garble./The garble was loud."

Over on 21st South (just down the street from me) there are two Chinese restaurants. In the one farthest east there is a window that has placed in it a very large aquarium. 

Inside the tank lives some sort of exotic fish whom I call Fredo. From the reflection you can see the view that Fredo has from his tank.

Fredo can see people walking by, and he pays attention to them.