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| ***BIO*** James Babbs still lives and dies a little each day in the same small town where he grew up. He works for the government but doesn’t like to talk about it. He likes getting drunk and writing and sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference because both of them can be very intoxicating. He doesn’t like okra and never did but he could eat lima beans every day of the week. James has recently had work in Abbey, Gutter Eloquence, Fight These Bastards, Opium Poetry, and Song of the San Joaquin Quarterly. |
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| A Beautiful Girl With the Middle Name Blanche |
| by James Babbs |
| her first name was Charwin
I met her back in college she was friends with another guy who lived on the same floor as me she kept showing up at the same parties I did and it was easy for me to talk to her about nothing after drinking several cups of beer one night I told her I thought she had a really beautiful name a beautiful name for a beautiful girl I said and she said her middle name was Blanche I said you didn’t hear that name much anymore it was one of those old names like Hortense or Gertrude I told her I had an Aunt Blanche but she died in a fire when I was young Charwin said it was a family name she had a great-grandmother with that name and a second cousin on her mother’s side then she leaned over letting her long beautiful hair hang down in front of her face and threw up all over my shoes |
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| Mar. 2010 |
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