Showing posts with label Eleanor Lipman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Eleanor Lipman. Show all posts

Sunday, June 12, 2011

Sunday Fantasy

Bonnie Parker


Bandito


What gets you up in the morning?

For me it is the thought
that someday, I will be
as far away from here
as I can get

Watch me
rubbing out the lines behind me
I recommend it

I recommend 
fooling everyone into thinking
that you have settled down
and then heading for the hills

The dog will bare his teeth
if instructed and meet up
with you later. It's good
you named him Bandito:
he'll watch your back

This, by the way, this is not a fantasy
It is page 69 (ha ha!) of the manual
I read when we were planning 
the takeover

So it didn't happen—so what?
This is better
Wait until I tell you
what's on the next page



Eleanor Lerman, from The Sensual World Reemerges 
via The Writer's Almanac

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