I couldn't never be for them Packers".
Since its debut in 1964 as the Gallery of Modern Art, 2 Columbus Circle has been the building that couldn't, never quite settling in as a successful or even comfortable destination.
I couldn't never even imagine thinking that.
Then a few people in the audience growl, "Arrrr" — you know, like a pirate, followed by tittering laughs from those who had never heard it before, or just couldn't never not find it funny.
Works like "Bluets" and last year's "The Argonauts" are full of sentences that move from the personal to the critical, take a dip into quoting another writer, corner hard into comic profanity and then come to an emotional stop you couldn't never have predicted three lines earlier.
First, the dodo could not fly (never a good thing when one has to escape humans or the carnivores that inevitably accompany them, like cats and dogs).
Marvin notes the firm opinion of the British postmaster general in 1895 that "the telephone could not, and never would be an advantage which could be enjoyed by the large mass of the people".
The sequester principle - that a sword of Damocles hanging over Congress and the White House would produce good public policy that reasoned debate could not - never made any sense.
This time last year I couldn't walk never mind play hockey.
What this crazed neoliberalism overlooks is that without the state and its baleful agencies these corporations couldn't exist, never mind thrive.
"There were long hours, everyone worked very hard, but I couldn't imagine never having been through that.
