Bringing a Gun to Chekhov’s House by Robert Wood Lynn It’s a party everyone’s real happy to see you and you’re not stupid you don’t show them the gun nobody is happy to see a gun and after all it’s his house and you know how he gets so you’re gonna leave it with the coats and there’s gonna be someone real cute there at the party someone you’ve got real good at looking away from it’ll be a real rager real scribble yourselves on the walls kind of night and there’s gonna be the part of it where you both end up in the bathroom line away from whoever you came with or will go home with and there will be this tremendous opportunity to say something even though it’s all very loud and you’ll think of the cleverest way to sum up the immense distance between people and make believe the being alive part of being alive and so the moment you open your mouth to say it you will know this is gonna work that you’re both gonna wreck everything about yourselves in the purest way you will be asking each other to whisper forgotten names and take turns napping with each other’s whole body weight on top of you and this is honestly the most gorgeous you have ever been absolutely finally and now the moment you open your mouth there is this tremendous noise coming from coming from coming from coming from oh the room with the coats at which point everything remembers quiet that angry kind of quiet and you’re not sure if you should still try and say it. End ID]

Postcard clutches at Schiaparelli Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2015