Monday, October 17, 2011

"I hug her one more time and pull her down to the bed. And in my mind, I rise up from the bed and look down on us, and look down on everybody else in the hospital who might have the good fortune of holding a pretty girl right now, and then at the entire Brooklyn block, and then the neighborhood, and then Brooklyn, and then New York City, and then the whole Tri-State area, and then this little corner of America--with laser eyes I can see into every house- and then the whole country and the hemisphere and now the whole stupid world, everyone in every bed, couch, futon, chair, hammock, love seat, and tent, everyone kissing or touching each other...And I know that I'm the happiest of all of them."