Not sure why Ann, Gary’s ex, thought Dan was “dangerous” for coming on to her. I hope she didn’t think she was special. Dan came on to everyone — me, my beautiful friends Claire and Stacey. His approach was — and in this my testimony differs from Gary’s — to be quite abject. He was the kind of man who seemed like he wanted to put his head in your lap and gaze up at you lugubriously. (This creeped me out. I didn’t learn to love abjection in a man until I met Gary.) And he liked innuendos. I remember he came by one day when I was working at David Highsmith’s bookstore and for some reason we were tallking about children — maybe even little girls. He looked at me meaningfully and said “they’re so wet.” Now, how was I supposed to construe that?

It’s quite true that I reviewed Monologue x 3 for Poetry Flash. I’m sure I have a copy somewhere. What Gary doesn’t mention is the dramatic irony of this — what if it had been Monologue x 4 and Gary had had the role he wanted in it? How would *this* story be now? What, for example, if I had given him a bad review? The mind boggles, stumbles, reels, freaks out. Do you believe in fate?

I remember arguing with Dan a couple of times. He could be very persistently argumentative.