Zeugma
”She lowered her standards by raising her glass,
Her courage, her eyes and his hopes.”
“When he asked “What in Heaven?” she made no reply,
Up her mind, and a dash for the door”
“I got a part-time job at my father’s carpet store, laying tackless stripping and housewives by the score.”
“I took her hand and then an aspirin in the morning,”
“I called her a whore and myself a cab.”
“Are you getting fit or having one?”
“She was a thief, you got to believe: she stole my heart and my cat.”
“Your phone’s off the hook, but you’re not”
“He works his work, I mine”.
“The sky—and my hopes—is falling”
[…]in which he describes a great house “where the washing is not put out, nor the fire, nor the mistress”
“Did she turn down the wrong hallway, his advances, or the sheet?”
“You can leave in a minute and a huff”
“He lost his coat and his temper.”
Goddamn I love Zeugma.
(I’m missing references #ohno )
Alexander Riccio 