facilitating intimacy

"Facilitating Intimacy," November 4, 2022 (#308)

original title

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed (2012)

Wild Nights! Stories about the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James and Hemingway by Joyce Carol Oates (1985)

penultimate line from Wild Things (1998)

last line from The River Wild (1994)

Facilitating Intimacy

It was my burden to bear, of my very own ludicrous making, and yet

programmed to respond to their new environment more or less as

toothpaste dribbled out of my mouth. It seemed like forever since I’d

escaped the mausoleum-mansion he’d leased for $8,000 a year,

in the territory where most of the Bigfoot sightings in the world

must approach to read with his weak eyes. He noted that

a llama was what he was. He smelled like burlap and morning

warning to you, not to become attached to the young men of

feeling my anger drain out of my body. By the time I rose,

a distant waterfall and so concentration was difficult but

I want you to nail that shyster's balls to the nearest wall.

We... wouldn't want to be a burden.

3-14-22 of art by M.C. Escher

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