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Amis writes: "I lay there like an old dog, an old dog that wants its old belly stroked".
I was studying for a test with a friend, and he was like, "I have a question and you just have to be honest: are you gay?" I thought, I can lie like I've done a million times before, or I can tell somebody and see how it feels.
"On rare occasions," he tells his wife, "the word I sought lay like an angel, begging to be used, even if only to be used in spirit ditties of no tone.
3 T. C. Borland (2 The Knowle, London Road, Cuckfield, West Sussex RH17 5ET): Variety of aerated drinks I lay out, like Sprite (spray out like light; I in anag).. VHC D. Appleton: 'Bend seems tight dear,' I gulped (send beams; anag. + ate).
Then the hurried, slightly dishevelled enjambement begins to accumulate, in quick-fire, comma-linked rhythms that slow at last and fade on a feminine ending of dreadful ominousness: "I lay / like a god, for an hour, then they came for me, / and took me to my mother".
I lay there like a dead person, eyes open, heart stone cold.
Someone's blood dripped on me as I lay "dead like a dragon on the floor" at the end of the performance, but such is art.
Because the first [midwife] came in when they were hooking me up and they put the bed in the lithotomy position or however you call it, and I said, "I cannot lie like that," and they said, "Oh, well, you have to for this exam," or, "You have to".
I lay face down like the blond woman and tanned myself for ten minutes or so, listening to the tiny waves slap against the side of the raft.
