“On top of everything else, Boobie's got the clap.”
“We got boobies!" the kid me said, gawking at my chest. "I'm really glad we got boobies. Finally.”
“Just my luck, on top of everything else I had to take baboon medicine.”
“In some circles, admitting you love Top 40 radio is tantamount to bragging you gave your grandmother the clap, in church, in the front row at your aunt's funeral, but those are the circles I avoid like the plague or, for that matter, the clap.”
“In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that, and so I felt, that night, like the turtle that everything else in the universe was on top of.”
“What use for? asks my mother, jiggling the table with her hand. You put something else on top, everything fall down.”