These bits of poetry that stick to her like burrs.

Some women make it look so easy, the way they cast ambition off like an expensive coat that no longer fits.

And that phrase - 'sleeping like a baby.' Some blonde said it blithely on the subway the other day. I wanted to lie down next to her and scream for five hours in her ear.

These bits of poetry that stick to her like burrs.

Also she signed away the right to self-destruct years ago. The fine print on the birth certificate, her friends call it.

When God is a father, he is said to be elsewhere. When God is a mother, she is said to be everywhere.

The Buddhists say there are 121 states of consciousness. Of these, only three involve misery or suffering. Most of us spend our time moving back and forth between these three.