<koertge's "coming out"> 2003-05-01.12:15 a.m. Coming Out Ronald Koertge of the hospital with the news that she has a skull like marmalade and may, at fifteen, learn to talk like a fish, I look in the window of the store by the bus stop and see my open collar tousled hair and I think that in another day or two, when the smudges under my eyes are even darker, I will be very, very attractive indeed. back /& forth /& frosting names are often sad