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The Telemarketer Basically Enjoys Talking With Goldbarth, Though it Ends Too Soon for Her Preference/ Gabriel Welsch Is the man of the house at home? I can't believe you just said that, your throwback euphemism drags up a past to lament and praise, supernova twice, bigness a narcoleptic paradox running down the lice-ridden rungs of time-- --so you're the man, er, the head of the household. You could say that. Excellent. I have some questions? Is it excellent? Do you know what you're saying? Or are you like the loquacious cockatiel, your exuberance a feathered haste, chit-chat scattershot like rejected millet flecking a shag carpet. We discuss you, you know, over dinner, over grilled fish or a burger flame-plump and greasy, while the moon, at once pale and thick, opaque as sperm, like turned milk, looks nailed to a frail horizon, and we complain, bitch about the everyday invasions, grudge and shrug to admit some utility in the cubicled greeting mills . . . [This is easily the best call I've had all day.] put up with coy asides and pomegranate scatters of salesmanship, of salespersonship, of the multiple mutations of commerce, while some of us raise the
The Missouri Review – University of Missouri
Published: Oct 8, 2004
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