"Gray's Anatomy" by William Logan O doctor, dear doctor, my husband, he calls them the rudest names. He calls mine Annie Oakley. He calls his Jesse James. I love to squeeze his Cutty Sark as he rounds my Cape of Good Hope, but why must he leak his fountain pen in my business envelope? And why are these Egg McMuffins, and why is that steak tartare? And why does he say my rack of lamb has the smell of caviar? He loves to lift my Dixie cups. He leaves my bacon charred. He drives my little rental car by inserting his MasterCard. He wants to put his dessert spoon into my raspberry fool or take his New York minute inside my Liverpool, or put his plug in my outlet, his sirloin in my roaster, his dreadnought up my river mouth, his toolbox in my toaster. Whenever we're in the bedroom, he whispers in my ear that I'm his drowning Ophelia and he's my young King Lear. And then he strips me naked to kiss my razor clam or puts his thumb like a diplomat deep into Vietnam. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % ...We wanted to be born % % % % once, don't we want % % to be delivered again, % % even knowing the nothing % % % % love may come to? % % O Lucky and Buddy and Red, % % we put our tongues to the world. % % % % --Mark Doty, "Shelter" % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+