4.23.2010

man rises unexpectedly

There are also men in the world. Sometimes we forget, and think there are only women--endless hills and plains of unresisting women. We make little jokes and comfort each other and our lives pass quickly. But every now and then, it is true, a man rises unexpectedly in our midst like a pine tree, and looks savagely at us, and sends us hobbling away in great floods to hide in the caves and gullies until he is gone.

[Lydia Davis, 'Men' in The Best American Poetry 2008]
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  1. Unknown4/23/2010 11:05:00 AM

    Also, we all pretty much dig Godzilla movies.

    ;)

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  2. Cat.4/23/2010 07:17:00 PM

    Well, this is rather disturbing.

    I don't really hobble away from men popping up in our midst. Mostly I laugh at them.

    Present readers generally accepted, of course.

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