On a visit to my friend, Tom, I get to see his new apartment for the first time since he split from his wife. It”s a nice two bedroom place with huge rooms in a suburb of Hartford, much nicer than I’d expect of a guy newly "batching it.” He’s got new appliances, garbage disposal, and a view of some pleasant woods out the back windows. The bookshelves all around the edge of the living room, as I’d expect, are filled with his poetry collection.
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Of course, there are signs that it’s a bachelor’s pad: the furniture doesn’t match; no art on the walls; rabbit ears on the tv; one bedroom used for open storage is half-filled with unopened boxes of stuff; an assortment of half-empty wine bottles sits on the kitchen table by the micro-wave, but the best detail is in the living room.
bachelor pad,
a blue Igloo cooler
for a coffee table
by Charlie Rossiter
Oak Park, Illinois
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