The Past, Like Most Lessons
| Or the water—what does it have to do to
be safe? When it lies down with you when you see your reflection, and—you want to see it. She says, you can’t catch cancer from other people, but I don’t trust them. Then, I felt overlooked. I felt drugged. I felt like my insides were cooking. Now, after all these years, how do I find myself all tiny again, all seated at the table, at the table with my baby- doll St. Agnes Moorehead, St. Agnes Moorehead? (And they have a tear.) |
St Agnes? The left eye is a little bigger,
or the right one. And the kohl doesn’t help. She begins to wonder if she’ll be gone by the first scene. And sometimes she is gone. Into the first-class cabin, into the cabin, into the sleeping-car of whatever vehicle they happen to be on. She doesn’t reach for her vehicles. Of course the water is a vehicle: there is The Pride billowing : The Pride. She says, I don’t want you to see me like this. I don’t want you to see me. |