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Rebecca Lobo sits at the counter and crushes ants with her thumb. She and her roommate have an "ant problem." Rebecca Lobo is trying to get out of her lease because of the ant problem, but the landlord keeps offering to send over an exterminator. Rebecca Lobo makes it a point to not be there when the landlord says the exterminator is coming.

She crushes ants for a very long time, until the counter looks like the site of a terrible ant battle. She is thinking, while absent-mindedly crushing, about the size of Professor Alvin's penis. Not in a sexy way, but just wondering. Rebecca Lobo wants Professor Alvin to put his lips to that bone in the middle of her chest. She wants him to lick all of her ribs clean, like a satisfied diner. She wants to smell his armpits because of that one line in "Song of Myself" about Walt Whitman's body odor being finer than prayer. She told Professor Alvin that she liked this line and he said he liked it too.

Rebecca Lobo wants Professor Alvin to think about her, is all she wants, she thinks. She just wants Professor Alvin to think about her.