Saturday, March 26, 2005

1613

In solitude and the movie theater equally
She finds herself, like a quarter she'd dropped.
And she says, "Hunger is valuable,
The way irritation provokes invention."
In her everyday life she appears composed
But she is probably humoring you.
When I last spoke to her, on Bleecker
Near the Bitter End, she stared through me.
Alas, dear reader, we do not exist in prose,
A happy fact every domestic animal knows.