January 30
Walking the cold street at 1 in the morning, everything seems simple. Even in the sky: a ring around the moon.
February 26
Cockroach on the cupholder in the bathroom — slender, delicate legs, like a ballet dancer. (I kill her.)
March 27
Up unusually early — 8 a.m. — I notice that people’s noses are bigger in the morning, probably because their eyes are smaller.
November 29
Looking at myself in the bathroom mirror, saying over and over, “Funny-looking guy!”
Poem On Wall
YOU CAN ERASE THE NAME BUT NOT THE FAME, I wanna live for ever!
Dream
I meet my father on a train. He’s dead, but he comes back to life on special occasions. He’s wearing a suit, and looks splendid. “What’s it like to be dead?” I ask him. He smiles slightly. “It’s like a salami sandwich,” he says. “You don’t even notice it.”