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I like divorce.
I love to composeletters of resignation; now and thenI send one in and leave in a lemon-hued Huff or a Snit with four on the floor.
Do you like the scent of a hollyhock?
To each his own.
I love a burning bridge.
I like to watch the small boat go overthe falls — it swirls in a circlelike a dog coiling for sleep, and its frail bowpokes blindly out over the falls' lipa little and a little more and thentoo much, and then the boat's nose dives and buttflips up so that the boat points doomilydown and the screams of the soon-to-be-deadlast longer by echo than the screamers do.
Let's go to the videotape, the news-caster intones, and the control room does,and the boat explodes again and again.
William Matthews
William Procter Matthews III (November 11, 1942 – November 12, 1997) was an American poet and essayist.
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