John Updike calls the Poetry Crisis Line

Happy mid-September from the Poetry Crisis Line!

ROSIE (counselor): Poetry Crisis Line, what is your emergency?

UPDIKE (caller): The breezes taste of apple peel.

ROSIE: Have you tried peeling the breeze before you taste it?

Read the rest of “September” by John Updike here.

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