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Women & Menexpand_moreCerberuses ran in packs, terrorizing drunks who fell in the snow.
At the copier, her back to him, running off copies, was Penny Ayler.
The door opened, and Dan stormed in, shouting, “Motherfuckers!”
The man lifted his shirt just enough to show the handle of a pistol.
She fell out of her own composition, fell and landed flat on her face.
If Vann kisses her, a mist will rise in her brain. A promise of oblivion.
I had promised my children to end the war before they grew up.
He’s not the skinny hippie all the paintings make Him out to be.
The future was spread out for us to go in any direction we wanted.
Severe knobs of head and tail: one a horn of venom, the other masked.
I am subject to you in the way the water is subject to the moon.
Albert came to her rescue. “The Great Gatsby’s our religion,” he said.
Ella knew she hadn’t hurt Sebastian, but she knew she’d betrayed him.
The man said in a hard voice, “I wanna fuck you, little Indian girl.”
We’re tired. In bed, we hold hands. We watch TV. But do you want more?
I miss sex. I really liked it, and I was good at it, if I do say so myself.
Mama would say beware of the little flaws that make one homely.
Amy put her arm around his shoulders. My boy. Isn’t he wonderful?
A small circle of friends and family babysat so she could go to school.
We’re fat! So what? They hadn’t yet tired of this chant, the play’s refrain.
I am part dumb, and blind, and deaf, and untasting and unfeeling.
It wants to name the dead—without a name you wander lost in the sky.
What I became was not pretty. Like a needle on water-warped paper.
When an adult falls, children are stunned and cry, “Mommy! Mommy!”
I hightailed it out of the hospital like my ex-wife was a prison I’d escaped.
While they stand in line Robin leans into his chest. They don't talk.
It’s like his bottom half is not man but a strong horse.
A whippoorwill called, a lonely voice among the cedars.
Can there have been something in my letter, that unlucky letter?
We can be naked in black light, the smell of unwash and old pot.
