She always wanted to make love to a clock so she'd know when to stop.
She always wanted to be standing in the limelight in a white satin dress ...

This isn't so bad I said two days after you died, Everything's the same. You're just not here. Look. I get up and make tea and you're just not here, that's all. ...

When you were in the 9th grade and I was in the 7th you were

a crossing guard keeping order at Junior High School number 3. No one

was disobedient when you wore that wide yellow strap across your chest ...

Silence, wanderer, you, with your purposeful imagery -
 Nothing inflames the past as much as you do!
How many places can you lead the mind at once ...

It'll be a poem,

looking at the lines that

go side by side, if there resides a

shadow inside, a form not

too hurried, a little self important seed

sleeping at the center ...

Elaine's father was a guard at the Trenton State Penitentiary.

Once in awhile, I forget how often,

she couldn't come out to play

because it was her daddy's turn to pull the switch ...