For the Wife Beater's Wife With blue irises her face is blossomed. Blue Circling to yellow, circling to brown on her cheeks. The long bone of her jaw untracked She hides in our kitchen. He sleeps it off next door. Her chicken legs tucked under her She's frantic with lies, animated Before the swirling smoke. On her cigarette she leaves red prints, red Like a cut on the white cup. Like a skin she pulls her sweater around her. She's cold, She brings the cold in with her. In our kitchen she hides. He sleeps it off next door, his great Belly heaving with booze. Again and again she tells the story As if the details ever changed, As if blows to the face were somehow Different beating to beating. We reach for her but can't help. She retreats into her cold love of him And looks across the table at us As if across a sea. Next door he claws out of sleep. She says she thinks she'll do something After all, with her hair tonight.
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BRUCE BARTON What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will no... BRUCE BARTON Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln. BRUCE BARTON The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them. LENNY BRUCE In the Halls of Justice, the only justice is in the halls. LENNY BRUCE The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than ... BRUCE BARTON We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wi... BRUCE BARTON A lot of people say to me, Why did you kill Christ? I dunno... it was one of those parties, got out ... LENNY BRUCE In every pang that rends the heart the Man of Sorrows has a part. MICHAEL BRUCE When you're through changing, you're through. BRUCE BARTON If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric... LENNY BRUCE Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them... BRUCE BARTON The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity -- an overwhelming faith in the... BRUCE BARTON Advertising is the very essence of democracy. BRUCE BARTON Such is an actor's life. We must ride the waves of every film, barfing occasionally, yet maintain ou... BRUCE CAMPBELL Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick. BRUCE LEE Communism is like one big phone company. LENNY BRUCE For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men... BRUCE BURTON Today's comedian has a cross to bear that he built himself. A comedian of the older generation did a... LENNY BRUCE The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can LENNY BRUCE America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstr... BRUCE JACKSON Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. . . . Be a hero -- take the time learn ... BRUCE WILLIS Conceit is God's gift to little men BRUCE BARTON In every pang that rends the heart
The Man of Sorrows had a part. MICHAEL BRUCE Now a Jew, in the dictionary, is one who is descended from the ancient tribes of Judea, or one who i... LENNY BRUCE The thing with Catholicism, the same as all religions, is that it teaches what should be, which seem... LENNY BRUCE Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God. LENNY BRUCE The height of cultivation runs to simplicity. Halfway cultivation runs to ornamentation. BRUCE LEE It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential. BRUCE LEE Many a person who goes on a diet finds out in short order that they are poor losers BRUCE FROEMMING Some guys they just give up living, others start dying little by little piece by piece, some guys co... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN One day it's going to dawn on the human race that war is as barbaric a means of resolving conflict a... BRUCE KENT Waving the flag at the 1976 Olympics wasn't my idea. It was too much apple pie and ice cream. Not th... BRUCE JENNER