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My memory is an interesting animal. I remember the most insignificant details or trivia and seem to be able to call them up without much difficulty, yet the big things collect dust more easily. Is it because they are bigger? More surface for mind dust to settle on? I performed a poem at the reading tonight and chunkified a line because I forgot the meter. No one noticed because they hadn't heard the poem before, but still... I never used to do stuff like that. I haven't decided yet if it's the age or the drugs. Heh. Yeah. Right. Anyhoo... I'm gonna give my couch some ass smoochies and channel surf. "Hysteria" - T.S. Eliot
As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her laughter and being part of it, until her teeth were only accidental stars with a talent for squad-drill. I was drawn in by short gasps, inhaled at each momentary recovery, lost finally in the dark caverns of her throat, bruised by the ripple of unseen muscles. An elderly waiter with trembling hands was hurriedly spreading a pink and white checked cloth over the rusty green iron table, saying: "If the lady and gentleman wish to take their tea in the garden, if the lady and gentleman wish to take their tea in the garden..." I decided that if the shaking of her breasts could be stopped, some of the fragments of the afternoon might be collected, and I concentrated my attention with careful subtlety to this end.