from Still Life with Woodpecker
Who knows how to make love stay?
1. Tell love you are going to Junior's Deli on
Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a cheese-
cake, and if love stays, it can have half. It will stay.
2. Tell love you want a momento of it and obtain a
lock of its hair. Burn the hair in a dime-store incense
burner with yin/yang symbols on three sides. Face
southwest. Talk fast over the burning hair in a
convincingly exotic language. Remove the ashes of
the burnt hair and use them to paint a mustache on
your face. Find love. Tell it you are someone new. It
will stay.
3. Wake love up in the middle of the night. Tell it
the world is on fire. Dash to the bedroom window and
pee out of it. Casually return to bed and assure love
that everything in going to be all right. Fall asleep.
Love will be there in the morning.
1. Tell love you are going to Junior's Deli on
Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a cheese-
cake, and if love stays, it can have half. It will stay.
2. Tell love you want a momento of it and obtain a
lock of its hair. Burn the hair in a dime-store incense
burner with yin/yang symbols on three sides. Face
southwest. Talk fast over the burning hair in a
convincingly exotic language. Remove the ashes of
the burnt hair and use them to paint a mustache on
your face. Find love. Tell it you are someone new. It
will stay.
3. Wake love up in the middle of the night. Tell it
the world is on fire. Dash to the bedroom window and
pee out of it. Casually return to bed and assure love
that everything in going to be all right. Fall asleep.
Love will be there in the morning.