"The Dating Report," Albert Goldbarth

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Don calls, to tell me about a woman he's dating.
He likes her -- though her psychic therapist says she

drowned in Atlantis. "So many small things push us apart."
His tightass opinion of television . . . her kids . . .

the first cracks in the city ramparts . . . panic . . .
grabbing up coins and some earrings . . .

the waters pouring in between.