...and I'd like to add that will teach all the classes, I will crave the eight o'clock I will teach whatever you want, Fuji Island Poetry, gator wrestling, Lamaze, all within my range. [...]

I'll go to every meeting I can find. I'll be perky and upbeat, bye-bye despair. I will not silently mouth the words I want to die. I will chortle when others chortle, stop when they stop, sick smile stuck on my face like the Joker. I will be a frisky Marxist, an ersatz Francophile [...]