“A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?”
“Three eggs two slices of toast a cup of coffee an episode of Mr. Ed. A Violin and a bowl of fruit what else does a man need?”
“I watched a bowl of fruit on the table remain motionless. Just another example of life imitating art.”
“One can't work/by limelight.//A bowlful/right at/one's elbow//produces no/more than/a baleful/glow against/the kitchen table.//The fruit purveyor's/whole unstable/pyramid//doesn't equal/what daylight did.”
“He’s sitting casually at my kitchen table peeling the skin off an applewith a pocket knife, a red apple that he has quite obviously appropriated from my fruit bowl, might I add.”
“If a man does his best, what else is there?”