lets
touch
worry
remove
memory
method
Jasmine
radio
Connecticut
Reach
contained
children
here
wheel
boat
key
death
outside
the mere
tricks
late
imaginary
waits
eve
sequence
thumbnail
kept
played
saints
once
detail
Ice or the satisfactions of surface. He and she resist simple explanations and so look forward to frictionless passages. To anyone of a certain age, of course, that word brings its own associations and pop-psych formulations. So what. In one's own house language is released of its constant insistence upon self-knowledge and hipness. Some things can just be said. Do you ever wish we were the kind of couple who stirred up cocktails in the late afternoon? Martinis? Even highballs if they still make such things. It's likely they do, whoever they might be, but less likely they call them that. All over Europe cocktails were the rage a year or two ago. Vivid descriptions of them under neon colored illustrations on miniature menus like they have in gelaterias.


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