Cut a circle out of that sheet of metal.

Bertha's madness represents the limit case of mistresshood — the worst possible end of a dependent and degrading marriage — but its more gruesome aspects work, paradoxically, to distract the reader […]

You take your ileum as Wallace Stevens/and you take my ileum/as Gordon Lish,/am I right or am I right?

I’m not really hungry now, so let’s have dinner later.