Bailey says: "My smallest role was with a single individual and we still work together after six years.
The poem describes"the glories strung likebeads on my smallest sightsand hearings, on the walk inthe street and the passageover the river".
After spending all day smoothly interviewing grown-ups, for instance, I can spend all evening being stonewalled by my smallest source.
Her long oval hands, darting up out of her lap; her painted lips, tensed avidly in the excitement of argument; her voice, which slid past me almost palpably, like a very fine grade of finish sandpaper, caressing away my smallest imperfections — the policeman must share my own amazed gratitude at what she did, for me and my prick, with this array of erotic instruments.
Her long oval hands, darting up out of her lap; her painted lips, tensed avidly in the excitement of argument; her voice, which slid past me almost palpably, like a very fine grade of finish sandpaper, caressing away my smallest imperfections the policeman must share my own amazed gratitude at what she did, for me and my prick, with this array of erotic instruments.
In writing this, I went into the closet of my smallest child, where all the clothing detritus of three larger siblings washes up, and counted 70 assorted shirts, many too small, too large, shot from T-shirt guns at sporting events or otherwise unappealing, but many purchased, by me, at rock-bottom prices because even the kid with all the hand-me-downs needs "something new" once in a while.
