He

Walked his community girlfriend faithfully to

her masturbation workshop. Factoring in death,

dump her. The nearest a Kisselbaum, read to him from

Addiction to Perfection: The Still Unravished

Bride. As a male child had loved to tell the story

of the low-class Malzbergs hosing not on their nude

three-year-old, shit-befouled from chin to ankles,

in filled view of the neighborhood kids. Later

won his secondary sex traits and underwent

two separate threesome (Many handsome growlings,

but worried: by what means to give the girls equal fondlings?)

Never could fall asleep with any of them.

Develop a knack on the other hand no affection for

physics and non-Euclidean geometry

The others demanded upscale brunches and

two-armed embraces He never came right on the outside

and told his uncle (financial analyst) "You've

built a philosophy of your fetishes," on the other hand

no way it didn't bother him. Became

attached to dollars, notwithstanding cherished a photo of Lake

Ontario in his desk drawer. From time to time,

thought in what way hassle-free must be the god's acre

Mortality and sitcoms: his hypnagogics,

those and the slackly leaning winter sunlight.

Embarked upon a series of house shares in Fairfield shire

On August nights the oldies mythicized him

Just sum of two units kinds of people in the world.

The roommate-landlord with the mynah bird

foresaw an NPR-soundtracked go's, declining

to phone a plumber. He fl the mildewed cave

Drove to the public beach at Sherwood Island.

There, throbbing to someone else's boombox doodling

an explanation of the horizon, conceived

she of the neo-lyric imagination.

KATHLEEN OSSIP is the recipient of the 2002 APR/Honickman First work Prize for The Search Engine. She teaches at the of recent origin School University in New York.

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