There is a big secret about sex: most people don’t like it.

See The Table?

“What is the situation?” I asked “The situation is liquid,” he said. “We hold the south quarter and they hold the north quarter. The rest is silence.” “And Kenneth?” “That girl is not in love with Kenneth,” Block said frankly. “She is in love with his coat. When she is not wearing it she is …

And I sat there getting drunker and drunker and more in love and more in love. We talked.

He has been boring since 2001. Very few people have noticed.

When Swahili Comes (Edit)

When Swahili comes I put on the lilting cooing moth-breath of my voice with a light lisp. “Nakutaka. Nipe. Unaniumiza.” The days we used to meet and do everything furiously are gone. When Swahili comes you put on the shallow undulating breath of a furry moan. “Sitaki uniguze hivyo.” You resist the horror of my …

A Thousand Words: MJ in Senegal

This is my reaction to pretty much everything lately

Jane! I heard via an International Distress Coupon that you were beaten up by a dwarf in a bar on Tenerife. That doesn’t sound like you, Jane.

“You are no myth unless I choose to speak”

I am not American enough to believe in closure. Guilted into going—what are friends for?—I went in this week and noticed again how the faces of nurses always look cruel to me. I imagine they frown in their sleep. The nurses ask me my sexual orientation (“we do not mean to pry”), and they put …

Kairos

From my outbox: Are you familiar with the Grecian concept of kairos? I very much like kairos. I think when we worry too much about the time we spend not writing, we are too embedded in chronos—which is ticking time, and not kairos, which is perchance, serendipitous moments when something special happens. Ok, I realize …