He is fascinated by the power of certain words: "pity", which eradicates hatred because it humanises both pitied and pitier, and "maybe", which also dampens hate and isn't a fixed or "punishing kind of word like conviction or certainty, right or wrong, infidel or enemy, or truth or inquisition or empire or revolution or purge or mother fucker.
The farmers pay the sellers in crop share, cash or, occasionally, a fixed amount in kind.
Although the benefit amounts prior to the recession tended to be proportional to earnings on the job held before the unemployment spell, the temporary benefit additions were either fixed weekly dollar amount or a fixed amount of in-kind assistance.
Family is less a fixed entity than a kind of weather system that keeps coming back.
One should note first that a fixed, discrete cohort, the kind of population studied in a randomised clinical trial, is extremely different from a dynamic population, where several ageing cohorts and newcomers are monitored for varying periods of time.
The non-rhymes are as deliberately plotted as the rhymes themselves really are, but this casual-seeming technique increases the sense that "Words" is more free of fixings than fixed, a kind of meandering stream or dry-stone wall of a poem.
There is a wish to fix a kind of CV about oneself which is a set of formulas: the kind of person I think I am.
"This is not a short-term fix kind of format, not an immediate mass appeal format," Morrison says.
And Bruce can still make dreams come true, in a Jim'll Fix It kind of way as well as an emotional epiphany kind of way.
"We had pans and pans of rice fixed every kind of way," she said.
