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Jobs & Workexpand_moreWe were in a play about affection. We were in a play about sex.
It almost makes you cry, to know that you are no longer needed.
The first time the world demanded more of me, I was twenty-nine.
I hear myself giving advice in my father’s voice: Take the emotion out.
It takes a strong woman to make any sort of success in the West.
Ma didn’t believe in slapping. It was what common people did.
Joanie’s face was something she’d borrowed from Miró, from Picasso.
My friend Angela, who is also my roommate, got me into stripping.
What humanity needed was that gravity-defying miracle, the bird.
What’s a man supposed to do when his best friend is a falcon?
If mine, then, is a religious Offence, leave it to religious Punishments.
“As your brother, I ask you, how did you get that scar on your face?”
For a month after 9/11 Bella wept through all her appointments.
Her bra is black, her breasts full and white. There is too much flesh.
Like New York City, the factory was circumscribed but infinite.
At a red light he touches his cheek. The stubbly skin is sensitive, febrile.
I found myself alone on the train in possession only of Knoll’s journal.
Forgive my father, the promise that he made, that I could turn all this to gold.
“I—I am Martin Eden,” Martin began. (“And I want my five dollars.")
Her sentiments maudlin, malaise dripped like a fever from her pores.
These adventures taught me that writers are flawed human beings.
When I think on it, I can’t believe I’m going to kill two people over weed.
The golden-haired ones, they think they’re better than Virgin Mary.
She wonders if he will be all right. She assumes he has four-wheel drive.
You never see Westerners, so you don’t think of them as human beings.
He was ready to move on, to touch his patients, to cut them open.
His mother wasn’t there to meet him at his stop. She never was.
Our ambition was a clawing, grasping thing. It got us out of bed.
They are glorious pumpkin-skinned messengers. I hate them.
“We’re not like other species,” you say, a novelist at night.
