A hair cut today. Then time spent in an Ace Hardware, which seems very like Radio Shack. Or the coelacanth. I thought you were extinct?
Then rising in an elevator with two young brothers. The younger, maybe four, hopping up and down, while loudly asking his brother, pointing to me:
"Is he sitting ON a wheelchair?"
"Yes, that's a wheelchair. Be quiet."
"ON a wheelchair?" he asked again, incredulous. "Ow!"
Silence for a moment. Then more from the little guy.
"I'm gonna eat your FACE!"
"What did you say?" his brother asked sternly, embarrassed.
"WHAT!"
***
He was awesome.
***
Delicious Vietnamese food last night with friends. Warm weather.
It was well with my soul.
About Me
- Paul
- Paul Guest is the author of four volumes of poetry and a memoir. His debut, The Resurrection of the Body and the Ruin of the World, was awarded the 2002 New Issues Poetry Prize. His second collection, Notes for My Body Double, was awarded the 2006 Prairie Schooner Book Prize. His third collection, My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge, was published by Ecco Press/HarperCollins in 2008. His fourth collection, Because Everything Is Terrible, was published by Diode Editions. His poems have appeared in Harper's, The Paris Review, Poetry, Tin House, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. His memoir, One More Theory About Happiness, was published by Ecco in May 2010 and selected for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Program. The recipient of a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2007 Whiting Writers' Award, Guest lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
3 comments:
This made me laugh out loud; and I kind of wish you blogged on Wordpress because I do; and it's true about Ace and Radioshack. Makes you go, "Why?"
Paul,
I am interested in your autobiography. Is there any place that parts of it have been published? or on the blog? I wanted to recommend a great book to you (ad your readers). It's called Claiming Disability by Simi Linton. Have you heard of it? It's on google reader. I found it fabulous. There is also a piece I wrote on Feminism and Disability at delirioushem.blogspot.com
I'd be curious to know what you think. Best, Jen
that made me laugh!!!
Post a Comment