Eating my lunch yesterday out on the balcony - chopped salad with cheddar and crackers - I read in The New York Review of Books a Henri Cole poem, "Laughing Monster," that began:

"'Some people take and some people get took,'
my father used to say, and I just ignored him.
After all, he'd wake up and take a swig with his juice."

The wind picked up and I had to retreat inside. (Summer storms.) I cleaned the kitchen, watched some tennis, did some work. (Stay with me here, because this is leading to something.) For dinner we heated up leftover Indian food - aloo chole - and then I went for a bike ride around the neighborhood.

Back home I turned on the Marlins and saw they were already down 4-0, so I surfed the movie channels and found Billy Wilder's The Apartment on TCM. Fifteen minutes into it I heard a sad Fran Kubelik (Shirley MacLaine) tell a besotted C.C. Baxter (Jack Lemmon), "Some people take and some people get took."

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