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Essays. I, Too, Dislike Them

The essay consists of one part poetry, two parts history, three parts philosophy, and no parts sex.

My point of entry is a young woman standing before you reading a book, waiting for a train. She wears a round straw hat girded by a thick blue band. Her sandals are open-toed. Her dress is white with a pattern of small yellow flowers. Her skirt stops at her knees. Her expression skitters between the quizzical and the serene. She never lifts her gaze from the pages of the book, and she shows no concern for the time, the station, the train, her eventual destination, or for you.

What do you think? Is she a vision from a painting by Degas? Is she Galatea? Is she the intersection of thought and space? A problem? A symbol? A doop de doop?

Is that bulge in your pants a thousand words long?

{ from the essay collection Anything Can Happen }