January 10, 2021...The Broken Dome of the Teapot...1,942,545




Wednesday, January 6, distressed, I dropped the teapot lid, and the knob at the top of the dome  broke off. We lived with it that way from the 6th to the 8th, drinking dysfunctional, cold and bitter tea. And then we fixed it with a leather cord and an ancient bead from old Jerusalem, etched with the numerals CVI.

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