Interview with a toad

   

A young girl with her pet toad
at a pet show, 1936

 

 

"Late Fragment" by Raymond Carver

 

And did you get what

you wanted from this life, even so?

I did.

And what did you want?

To call myself beloved, to feel myself

beloved on the earth.

Walter Harry, Girl with Her Frog, Venice Beach Raceway, California, 1936