The Bad News, Straight
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Why don't you simply tell it straight? Right:
Men are dominance engines. They trade in pain.They will do anything. They think with their pricks,which tell them: assemble a terminal moraine.
Women trade sex for security, routinely.They prevaricate. They are pure praxis.Barrenness is what they fear most keenly.
Review: copulation is human being. Cultureis talk and handshake. Women: wet handshakes.Men: dry handshakes, equally worthless. Killjoy
Hobbes had it right. The Great Apes cannot speak,and yet they lie. The mirror shows us shrike,Ichneumon wasp, the Doctor's perfumed beak—
Pray stop. It's wrong—perhaps not even right— [End Page 509]
RICHARD KENNEY's most recent book is The One-Strand River (Knopf, 2007). He teaches at the University of Washington's marine laboratories in Friday Harbor, and lives with his family on the Olympic Peninsula.
