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"Limbo Like Me," by Robert Zend

Robert Zend, "Limbo Like Me," Published in Exile: A Literary Quarterly, Volume 4, Number 2
(Toronto: Exile Editions, 1974), pp. 110-123. ​© Janine Zend, all rights reserved, reproduced under license.
Robert Zend appears alongside Yehuda Amichai and Susan Musgrave in this edition of Exile magazine.
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Includes:
- "Little Nothings"
- "The Fly"
- "Buttonholed" (for Zorka)
- "Non"
- "The Zipper Way"
- "The Aging Process"
- "Taviella" (for Clara)
- "Confession"
- "Stick-outs"
- "...and Kandara-Q-Bya..."
The parking lot was far away and after the concert when we left the hall I had no scarf because when we entered the concert hall it was summer, so now I turned my collar against the icy northern wind. On the right lapel of my jacket there was a button, but on the left I could not find the buttonhole. I asked my friends to look for it in the snow...
- Opening of "Buttonholed"
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