Omaha Steaks

Cubism made me turn a corner
in my relationships with women.
I was living in a box of an apartment
on third street; thus ensconced,
the reverberations of backward
compatability reached chutney
fingers through my pillow at night.
Accordingly, I never slept. Most days
it snowed curry.

She was not just
knee-deep she was totally deep when
she did the freak with me. Though
she had the more current operating
system, I was able to slide through
her registry and announce myself in
a tiny, uninvited dll. He somehow
mapped a drive between us, a hub
of LAN sparkling pugnaciously under
the risotto sky we'd come to call
Reudens together. He always seemed
particularly eager to see my flesh,
especially in motion, but when I suggested
we meet he backed off quickly. He
suggested a restaurant that served only
steak, and that quite rare; filets as
pinks as embarassed dusk. Knowing
full well that I'm a vegan,

he
directed me to sites that sold
"Omaha Steaks," told me
it excited him very much, the thought
of forkfuls of tender veal in
my mouth. I got a thang, you got
a thang, ev'rybody got a thang.
I sat at that restaurant all night,
thumbing nervously the pages of
a book on Pop Art; to this day, there's
a print of A1 sauce on some of James
Rosenquist's finest work. She never
showed. A similar streak
of mustard, undoubtably from
a yesteryear lunch of salami on rye,
adorns my copy of Derrida's
Grammatology. What did the author
mean by it? After a while I got up,

paid the bill, and went home. Outside
the sky was twisted all over itself like
black licorice. Once back in my apartment,
wholly separate, I started boxing up
my things. It was time to keep on movin'.

2003/02/10 07:34:35



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