Have you ever dreamed you had sex with someone
   you aren't remotely interested in,
like a guy you work with or one of your husband's friends,

yet when I ask my dentist why he left Russia, he says,
    “Oh, life there is insupportable.”
Where is it not? I think with something approaching despair,

Half the time I’m counting my cash
   like Jacob Marley in hell
and the other half throwing it out the windows

What is a nose? Obviously not simply a smeller, sniffer,
or a mere searcher-out of olfactory sensation,

I wake up in the kitchen, lying on a wooden bench,
   with you and the waiter staring at me .