More of a Corpse Than a Woman
Give them my regards when you go to the school reunion; and at the marriage-supper, say that I'm thinking of them. They'll remember my name; I went to the movies with that one, feeling the weight of their death where she sat at my elbow; she never said a word, but all of them were heard. All of them alike, expensive girls, the leaden friends: one used to play the piano, one of them once wrote a sonnet, one even seemed awakened enough to photograph wheatfields- the dull girls with the educated minds and technical passions- pure love was their [...]