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When people say they miss me,I think how much I miss me too,Me, the old me, the great me,Lover of three women in one day,Modest me, the best me, friend To waiters and bartenders, heartyLaugher and name rememberer,Proud me, handsome and hirsuteIn soccer shoes and shortsOn the ball fields behind MIT,Strong me in a weightbelt at the gym,Mutual sweat dripper in and out Of the sauna, furtive observerOf the coeducated and scantily clad,Speedy me, cyclist of rivers,Goose and peregrine falconCounter, all season venturer,Chatterer-up of corner cops,Groundskeepers, mothers with strollers,Outwitter of panhandlers and billCollectors, avoider of levies, excises,Me in a taxi in the rain,Pressing my luck all the way home.
Baker's pedophile is so furtive that he's almost immobile, but we register the darting eyes under the bland, Mr. Rodgers-like façade, and as he waits for a little boy to eat a drugged tuna sandwich, we hold our breaths the way we did in Psycho when Norman Bates watched the car with the body of Marian Crane almost not sink into the swamp.
To put in perspective the conspiratorial inferences that Estrich strains to draw from seeing me with Starr deputy Jackie Bennett at the Jefferson Hotel bar--a block or so from the Washington Post , where I always go when I'm looking for a secure locale in which to do furtive things--perhaps Estrich should know that I also had some beers recently with a member of the Clinton defense team.
(In a furtive sort of way.)
In The Luck of the Bodkins , P.G. Wodehouse remarked on the ...look of furtive shame, the shifty, hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to talk French....
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