"a blue bathrobe from an outlet store gives a curious elegance in a motel stay "I could be playing two racetracks, side by side "or recognizing the economic future of Oneonta "writing the slow obit of the region" "in a decade, the colleges will be gone along with the final stability "confounding any sense of staying, of commitment, of roots, of proclaiming "THIS PLACE IS MY LIFE" - ON THE BEAT