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Jobs & Workexpand_moreWhen I wasn’t teaching social studies, I basically lived on my balcony.
He grabbed me, groped for my hips, kissing me, smelling my hair.
I was a darling without even trying, kerchief and dungarees.
He could smell the bear’s breath, feel the hot huff against his ear.
We left our lives behind us as fast as the Beemer’s zero to sixty.
Long and black, almost thick, the night comes to drape my shoulders.
They say the night watchman is so good he hears the grass growing.
I think of each story as a big circle that’s all around me and I’m in the center.
Turned out Bauer was one of the ones brought alive by misery.
Henry surprised himself with his inability to start looking for a job.
Up there there’s not a sound except for the wind and the buzzing of bees.
Three rooms, sight unseen, rented from a nurse and her husband.
For the first two months of class, Toby did barely any writing at all.
“Aren’t you full of surprises,” Talinda would have said. If she had known.
“Whoa, look—the monkey prof. Can you believe it? He was just on TV.”
She pulls quickly on her cigarette and blows it at me through the phone.
“If the world is becoming a void, the artist must fill it with his soul.”
I want to dispute that depression is by definition pathological.
They drink hard liquor and growl about which musicians are hot.
The consensus was that all the great writers drank way too much.
My father was at an awful disadvantage in a sport where cunning is a virtue.
Both Sherlock Holmes and I had a weakness for the Turkish bath.
The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
I’m still in love with this filthy city, but now I know Berlin's love isn’t free.
It begins on the sunny morning of November 14, 1960.
It was good they were Africans, she thought. It meant less danger.
All was hushed and stonily still, like the moon and its lights and shadows.
It’s a mistake to be here, he thinks, but he doesn’t turn around.
“I suppose there have been a good many men killed in this room.”
The trees were a sign from the devil, a warning of the terror to come.
