You’ve got a lot going on at the
other end of the couch. This drink.
Pour another beer into the flame.
“I’m really in love,” he stutters.
Unless someone can prove other-
wise. Unless breakfast is burning.
“I’m too old for this,” I kept
repeating to my brain. An unfamiliar
phrase. Four new wigs for Christmas.
Don’t be a replacement. Economical
is comical. Force the issue. When
it cries make a note of it.
