Aug 03, 2005 14:09
And so in this way, they went on together, living like they had never been forced to have a first meeting.
It's not an anthology if you read it cover to cover.
On Patterson Road,
Where every introduction and conclusion is a state of the union address
where patches of evergreens have been dropped carelessly like pennies at a tollbooth
I met a girl named Rebecca at the beach who sort of reminded me of myself.
A girl who hides behind a good book,
who hides under a full skirt so that her legs look like plastic stilts
and who said,
"It's not the Bible if you read it any way but blindly."