In the clinic she met a girl whose problem was she wanted everything.
Bolts of everything hit the table.
—from Anne Carson’s “Mia Mogile (Longinus’ Red Desert)”
Light is extreme (caught)
and shadows wait like
hoods to drop.
Brain taps
twice
for salt.
—from Anne Carson’s “Would Be Her 50th Wedding Anniversary Today”
For the town dreams
of surrender, mother
never untender,
mother gallant
and gay.
—from Anne Carson’s “Methinks the Town Has Been Troubled Too Long”
![Picking gooseberries, she said. O is shown moving to the window. Should traps be not available. Or they kneel throughout the play. That lifelong adorer! Same old coat. No verticals, all scattered and lying. Tomorrow noon? Goes back up the path, no sign of you. [Pause.]
— Anne Carson’s “Beckett’s Theory of Comedy”](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m18n6yh79b1qblh2wo1_500.png)
Picking gooseberries, she said.
O is shown moving to the window.
Should traps be not available.
Or they kneel throughout the play.
That lifelong adorer!
Same old coat.
No verticals, all scattered and lying.
Tomorrow noon?
Goes back up the path, no sign of you.
[Pause.]
— Anne Carson’s “Beckett’s Theory of Comedy”
