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The Short Stool Society
Part I
"There are things we don't do
at the Puerto Perdido public market.
We don't go into the meat area.
If you ever had doubts about the bloody origins of beef,
pork and sausage, or unless you were born
without a nose, you stay away."
Part II
"She has some ten varieties of bananas
including the little pecker-sized ones
that my friend Marguerite told me
taste just like old Tampax. I of course being me
asked her, How do you know?"
My Beautiful Career
"I find that taking cat-naps
four or five times a day helps to keep me in the pink,
and the ivy-covered halls of academe, with their windy
faculty meetings and frequent seminars, have long provided
an ideal venue for this practice."

READINGS
The Girl in the Chair
Part I
"Twice a week,
Geoff would wheel himself into the studios of the radio station,
put his hook into the trumpet, adjust his speculum bag ---
and blow his heart out. He always brought his funny friends with him ---
assorted misfits like Joe, Don, and Dolfin."
Part II
"Forget all the rumors of incest, pederasty, masochism and onanism
that their detractors are trying to lay against The Roots of Madness.
Even in San Jose, the Prune Capital of the world,
there are jealous, small-minded people,
who are ignorant of what we now see as the purest of
the New Smog-Belt avant-garde."