Ontological Damnation

oh richard. i never knew you to be so coy. but now i do. i was reading this book at caribou and a woman walked up to me. she said that’s richard brautigan on your book. aghast it is said i. he is a very funny man. i read some of the poems in the book and responded aghast he is! she sat down across from me and told me that i looked nice reading that book with richard brautigan, a man who is funny, on the cover. so now i read that book everywhere i go.