A Night Out

Deborah K. (United States of America)
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  1. machete
    a large knife used as a weapon or for cutting vegetation
    I told the waiter there was schmutz

    on my machete.
  2. brisket
    a cut of meat from the breast or lower chest especially of beef
    Oh, he apologized

    then and brought me straight away

    a new machete, with which I sliced

    the brisket as if clearing a path

    through a forest to a temple in a life

    more glamorous than the four dollars

    and thirty-two cents in my pocket

    with which I couldn’t possibly pay

    what I owe Jean-Paul Sartre for writing

    “No Exit,” since walking out on that play

    introduced me as if for the first time

    to the moon.
  3. bilingual
    using or knowing two languages
    Being bilingual, I told the waiter

    there was gunk on my machete.
  4. Yiddish
    a dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script
    He informed me

    I wasn’t sitting in the Yiddish section.
  5. waxing
    a gradual increase in magnitude or extent
    Try feeling crushed

    by the void of existence while staring

    at a waxing moon with or without

    a full stomach before or after

    cleaning your machete on your sleeve.
  6. glamorous
    having an air of allure, romance and excitement
    Oh, he apologized

    then and brought me straight away

    a new machete, with which I sliced

    the brisket as if clearing a path

    through a forest to a temple in a life

    more glamorous than the four dollars

    and thirty-two cents in my pocket

    with which I couldn’t possibly pay

    what I owe Jean-Paul Sartre for writing

    “No Exit,” since walking out on that play

    introduced me as if for the first time

    to the moon.
Created on Thu May 27 10:43:29 EDT 2010

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