The Ecphorizer
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I. DEBITS: Olivia has woes which, distort as you might, no matter how cleverly, in whatever light,
you cannot construe as anything funny. She needs bread and she needs honey. (She gets a little bread from an out-grown spouse, but she lives without honey in a cold, cold house). And hay is a necessity for her horses, three hundred eighty three. (That's cubic inches, not horses, I confess. Is three hundred thirty a more stable guess?) However many, the ravenous beasts, ostentatiously consuming hydrocarbonous feasts while snorting inside a fiery blue dragon, empower an inanely characterized wagon. Olivia needs honey, but she doesn't need fat: her should-be-flat places proliferate that, because she's a consumer compulsive, approaching undifferentiate blobness repulsive: she eats in the bathtub, she eats in the bunk,
she eats when she's sober, and more when she's drunk; she eats when she's lonely, she eats when she's sad, she incises especially efficiently mad. And sometimes when smoking and to-her-toes stoned for lack of calorific substance has moaned. But: her blubber can curdle;
she won't wear a girdle. The only advantage
to all this addage is, sitting, the paddage. II. CREDITS: On this, a more positive side of the ledger are assets accrued from a previous merger.
They total together, collectively: two. She looked at them closely once, and found
that one is thin and one is round; that brown eyes look green, but blue ones look blue. The thin, turning-green one is like his mother. The round, blue, different-sexed one is like the other. The thin makes sense, the round one little; the thin, when coerced, performs with his fiddle. The round, dieting, whittles a more feminine middle. That Oiivia has beautiful kids is not odd: their male parent fancied himself a young god. TO THE READER: I wrote this some time ago when I was in a different situation. I no longer have my station wagon. Since I broke its leg and had to have it (them?) shot I have destroyed two more cars and am now thinking about rolling my Mercury - also an ostentatious consumer - before I have to have spinal surgery done on it. My thin one is now rounder; my round one is thinner. Both make sense, generally. The one no longer makes much music but he has helped make a baby which seems to him to be more important. I now do little compulsive eating. My daughter says I once consumed eleven bananas in one evening, which she said she found impressive. She was too young then to know about Freud. ©1983 O.L. Anderson ![]() Olivia Anderson is a psychotherapist, poet, and playwright. Her current work-in-progress is a play about a 70-year-old mortician. More Articles by Olivia Anderson |
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