Straits by Kenneth Koch (1998). U City Public Library.

It's my spring break, so of course I feel I am getting sick. I am only sick during vacations. Julia is home sick with a fever, and I think I'm about 24 hours behind her. This book by Kenneth Koch is one of the the only ones I don't own, and it is out of print. Somehow I missed it when it came out. It would have done me a world of good in 1998, a very difficult year for me. "My Olivetti Speaks" is brilliant. Julia checked out The Pleasures of Peace. She said she wanted to check out a book of flarf and that was the closest thing we could find!