I say aloud to everything
call me your chief fool
and I’m done
—Eileen Myles
The kind of guy I am, I
believe, is the one who
looks back nostalgically
to times which were
perhaps the roughest
and remembers fondly.
What wonderful mo
ments educational
what a beautiful
apartment I lived
in and it was only
900 dollars rent
and within walk
ing distance of
the Toledo Mu
seum of Art, for
example. Not
the tears for
weeks at a time
crunched down
in the corner of
a very long and
beautiful hallway.
And thus it is, gene
rically, with regard
to the gerbil village
comment, our lady
of red wine having
no idea we were a
gay couple. Or
knowing and
finally therefore
inebriated enough
for such a low jab.
Anyone
can be beautiful
at 19 or 30. This
is life. Take a deep
look.
—Eileen Myles
