Simple by Raymond Carver
Monday would be awesome if Carol Channing is here, shouting, “RAAAASPBERRIES!”
Simple
Raymond CarverA break in the clouds. The blue
outline of the mountains.
Dark yellow of the fields.
Black river. What am I doing here,
lonely and filled with remorse?I go on casually eating from the bowl
of raspberries. If I were dead,
I remind myself, I wouldn’t
be eating them. It’s not so simple.
It is that simple.
