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Guest post by Joan Hawkins. “Who chose his words from mouths of babes got lost in the wood. Hip-flask-slinging madmen, steaming café flirts. They all spoke through you.” — “Hey Jack Kerouac,” Natalie Merchant and Robert Buck Remember the story of King Midas. He was granted a wish and without thinking it through, he asked that… Read more »