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Women & Menexpand_moreThere is a pinhole of light through the fog. A skiff on a lake.
I’m in a fight for my career and the SOB won’t be there for me.
They retire for the night, he to his bedroom and she to hers. What of it?
Morie Johnson was successful. I am not a hooker. I am only a thief.
I’m covetous of my worldly neighbor. And he’s not accommodating.
I drank every night until late and drew earth-shaking conclusions.
He’d always wanted to kiss her thigh dimples but never dared.
“No, no,” we say. “We’re fine! Really! We love things just the way they are!”
Today the game was to try to catch one of the cats in a pillowcase.
“You mean to fall in love with your wife while I’m gone,” she said.
Zeus’s tongue thrusts straight and deep between my lips.
Cerberuses 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?
His eyes always astonish her. Iridescent blue, flecked with black. Her husband was gone, two years later than she should’ve thrown him out.
