Certain brands of guilt can be inculcated in a secular way but other brands of guilt can only be obtained with reference to the metaphysical. - Sarah Ruhl

If we were in a restaurant sometimes Orpheus would look sullen and wouldn't talk to me and I thought people felt sorry for me. I should have realized that women envied me. Their husbands talked too much.

But I wanted to talk to him about my notions. I was working on a new philosophical system. It involved hats.

Listen to her the way you would listen
to your own daughter
if she died too young
and tried to speak to you
across long distances.

If more women knew more jokes, there would be more justice in the world.