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The ad above the seats reads —

Intrusive thoughts… Appearance … Causing Significant Stress?

She reads the sign and immediately hates how the man sitting below the sign acts —
a loud in the cellphone talker

She sees him nearly everyday on the train hates how he dresses
what he represents

Her father lost it all in the market in ‘08 —
shot himself in ‘09

He is an excrescence on her eyes

She thinks Judith and Holofernes —
modern take!

She sees his head in a large Tupperware —
no more ponzi’s
no more bankruptcies

Foreclosure follows

What I’m Reading:

An outbreak of anthrax has killed at least 30 hippos (Hippopotamus amphibius) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in the past month. No cases of the infectious disease have been reported in people so far. The wildlife outbreak puts further pressure on already limited resources, say researchers, as the DRC grapples with armed conflict and large outbreaks of Ebola and cholera.

— Flora Graham / “Anthrax kills hippos in the DRC” / Nature Briefing