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| Mark L. Levinson |
Mark L. Levinson grew up in Greater Boston, earned
a degree at Harvard College, and moved to Israel where
he has been active in the local community of English-language
authors while making his living as a writer for software companies.
He also translates from Hebrew to English.
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Love
A Livermore, California, light
bulb
has been burning one hundred
seven years,
day and night, according to the
paper.
The man there says the seal was
made so well
no air can get inside the bulb
“to help
disintegrate the carbon filament”.
We have a carbon filament
somewhere,
I would suppose. We have everything else.
Old business cards, unplayable
cassettes,
souvenir pencils, fragrant
candle stubs.
Our carbon filament would never
be
so thoroughly protected from
the air.
Protection doesn’t do us. Luck, maybe.
Never have we been sealed from
relatives,
from military call-ups, from
neighbors,
from dogs, from jealousy, from
history,
from CTs, from TVs, from CVs,
from fortune tellers, from
timeshare sellers,
tourists, manicurists,
coasters, florists,
toasters, roasters, chorists,
posters,
boasters,
misgivings, misapprehension,
mistrust.
The man in Livermore,
California,
says: “This bulb operates in a
vacuum
and it doesn’t burn hot. That’s the secret.”
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