Summary

The speaker switches gears to reflect on her experience with love, noting that "lover men come and go and mostly leave you waiting, and, truth be told, even those dear boys who make the highballs have their own thing going on, more often than not" (5). She explains that she has had her fair share of lovers, both men and women (the latter, she notes, would have been impossible to continue "back then") and notes that most of the women were "crazier than a box of frogs" (5). Some nights, she remembers, she would have nobody to go home to after a performance so she would stay late and "fall back on yourself" (5).

The contemplation of a night like this, when she is confronted with her loneliness, leads her to recollect her dog Pepi. Imagining that after a night of performance she returns home to...