The Missing Links
Andrew Motion on WG Sebald‘s poems. * PDFs of Breton, Soupault and Aragon‘s Dada journal Litt érature. * Tim Parks on the second volume of Beckett‘s letters in the LRB. * Parks on translating poetry. * Wittgenstein Jr. * Terry Taylor‘s Baron’s court, All Change republished. * Philip Glass on Sesame Street, 1979. * Five […]
The Men Who Stare at Guitars
He had stood on tiptoes and used his weight to push down and in, but the sticky stuff meant his cock slid all over her right buttock leaving slimy snail trails of lube and Cowper’s fluid — he’d looked it up the day before — pre-cum. ‘Fucksake,’ his girlfriend had said, looking up from the yeasty duvet. ‘It’s not like this in the movies,’ he had said. ‘What movies would that be?’ His girlfriend had replied, ‘Dumbo? Bambi?’ I was thinking more, ‘Anal Housewives 4,’ he had said, his cock now limp and embarrassed. ‘Maybe we should try a different position.’ ‘No,’ his girlfriend had said, ‘I’m not in the mood now,’ and had turned over, cocooned herself in the duvet and turned her back to him.
By Steve Finbow.