this is so evocative. sad, need someone
Hog-Nosed Bat aka Bumblebee Bat
god you write ONE self-indulgent book for your fiftieth birthday and Tim P rips you a new ass on goodreads.com.
I looove when food is in a bowl. Frequently plates are being brought out and I'm thinking this could've been a bowl meal but nobody gets it
well I was being glib but in a sense it does WISH you well. it just can’t actually do you well
Understand that there is a beast within you
that can drink till it is
sick, but cannot drink till it is satisfied. Understand
that it will use the conventions of the visible world
to turn your tongue to stone. It alone
knows you. It does
not wish you well.
—Frank Bidart, excerpt of "The Third Hour of the Night", in Half Light
