At the grocery store they were playing Blondie's Heart of Glass and as I came around into the cookie aisle two shoppers were dancing to it there. They were into it. I got a pack of super-discount fudge-covered shortbread cookies for Iris' lunch.

Iris everyday for school has to do a half hour of independent reading. I always make her read aloud to me. But today her teacher forgot to send home the books folder in every student's backpack. We got the French poetry anthology that Paul Auster edited and Iris read Paul Eluard's "Liberty," then Raymond Queneau's "Sines" and "If You Imagine," and then she picked out a page from Anne-Marie Albiach's "Enigma." Then we typed this together: