LETTERS
Fleur Jaeggy,
University Presses, and
Roaches

MORE LETTERS
Brilliant Intervals of
Horrible Sanity

ARTICLES
There Wasn't Any Tooth Fairy in Cuba
Part I
"She didn't know it at the time,
but this would have a terrible effect on my teeth,
turning them yellowish green.
It was my name and my teeth
which gave me the most trouble
during my adolescence."
Part II
"I'm a sick man ... a mean man.
There's nothing attractive about me.
I think there's something wrong with
my ... teeth."

READINGS
The Angel of Death
Part I
"'Where's your gun?'
Ellerbee asked the man at the counter.
'Oh gee,' the man said, 'I almost forgot.
You got so many things to think about
during a stickup --- the traffic flow,
the timing, who stands where ---
you sometimes forget the basics.'"
Part II
"Somehow he had left his body.
He could see it lying next to Kroll's.
'I'm dead? But if I'm dead ---
you mean there's really an afterlife?'
'Oh boy,' the angel of death said."

How to Kick a Duck
"'I presume you want a low-flying duck?'
'I don't give a hoot how it flies,' I said.
'I'm going to kick it on the ground.'
'A true sportsman,' mused Duncan'"

POETRY
The Happy Genius
"If I in my north room
dance naked, grotesquely
before my mirror
Who shall say I am not
the happy genius of my household?"
A Winter Sunday
"Sundays too my father got up early
and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,
then with cracked hands that ached
from labor in the weekday weather made
banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him."

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