“I close my eyes again... she comes into my office. She has a beautiful wooden ear. I have heard about it.
Brush the hair from my eyes, I have let a bowlcut get out of hand.
Idea for Sigourney Weaver tombstone: ‘You saw my panties in Alien.’
Back on the couch, my face in the cushions, where I see myself handling money, cautiously— opening each bill and smoothing it flat in the palm of my hand.
The bills smell like sharkskin, shake like monster celebrity boobs. You can't leave it to me to describe your world.” — “I remember reading the obituaries When Sonny Beno died and laughing so hard I fell down on the floor. And I remember trying to get up—my face ached, my stomach was cramping—so I could continue reading this to my brother over the telephone. But I was choking, literally, and was so totally out of control that it no longer had anything to do with Sonny Bono. I could not stop this insane laughter, so I stood up sharply and threw a series of jabs into the air. Real uppercuts. I was only partially robed. It was early. I was having coffee and oranges, I guess it was Sunday. And now I'm writing this on a bagel-bag, glancing down, swerving, looking up, glancing down again, as I drive my newly lacquered motorcoach up an icy mountain pass at dusk on my way to see my therapist who once spent 3 years in the circus with her ‘Largest Tits in North America.’ She always cries during our sessions. And then, every time, she wipes her eyes and carefully states that someday I will get it all together, and not drift so blindly like the seahorse with his throat slit, leaking a dark scarf across his moonlit coral homeland.”