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Period Piece

Nobody needs a dragon cutter any more, and so my life has no earthly purpose. I sit here on my ass in a leather chair provided by a tiny pension from the king's shoeshine boy, and I remember great green chunks of dragon sliced and stacked in the ice wagons.

4 miesiące temu

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One Day Marriage Certificate

One Day Marriage Certificate This beautiful one day marriage is ours for February 29, 1968 because we feel this way toward each other and want forever to be a single day [blank lines for filling in names] Marryin Sam in and for Golden Gate Park

4 miesiące temu

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October 2, 1960

My six-month-old daughter is lying on our hippopotamus bed, trying to eat the telephone book. She'll eat it by and by and the last number will be MOntrse 1-2021, the San Francisco Zoo- logical Society.

4 miesiące temu

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The Ochoco

Beyond the distant blue horizon, Far beyond the tow' ring cascades, Lies a land of beguiling enchantment. As serene as a summer night on the McKenzie, As wild as a winter storm on the Pacific; That is the land called the Ochoco, Where the tall pine trees caress the sky.…

4 miesiące temu

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Night Flowing River

Wearing a grey cowboy-style sort of formal Western jacket given to me by Peter Fonda's wife Becky in Montana, "You have to dress up sometimes," and on the right sleeve a borrowed black armband from Shiina Takako here in Tokyo, "This is perfectly all right." "But I don't want to…

4 miesiące temu

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The Mortuary Bush

Mr. William Lewis is an undertaker and he hasn't been feeling very good lately because not enough people are dying. Mr. Lewis is buying a new house and a new car and many appliances on the installment plan and he needs all the money he can get.…

4 miesiące temu

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The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth's Beer Bottles

When we were children after the war we lived for a year in a house next to a large highway. There were many sawmills and log ponds on the otherside of the highway. The sound of the saws could be heard most of the time and when there was darkness trash burners glowed red…

4 miesiące temu

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Linda

lin-da, whacha doin' - lin-da. are you happy or sad, are you lonely or glad, lin-da. lin-da.

4 miesiące temu

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The Light

Into the sorrow of the night Through the valley of dark despair Across the black sea of iniquity Where the wind is the cry of the suffering There came a glorious saving light The light of eternal peace Jesus Christ, the King of Kings.

4 miesiące temu

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A Legend of Horses

Of course the prostitutes of reality are the virgins in dreams but there are seven horses in the meadow with no one to ride them and all things are happening at once. It is raining. It is snowing. The sun is shining. The grass is black and there are seven horses in the meadow…

4 miesiące temu

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Kingdom Come

The world has a magic direction in the twilight. It is a place of spells and visions. Look out of the window. Do you see the old woman with the plum tree on her back? She is walking up Hyde Street. She appears to be lost and I think she is crying. A taxi…

4 miesiące temu

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The House

There are days when our cat becomes the doors and windows of the house. To go into the bedroom I must open a wooden cat that has an iron mouse in its claws, and to look out the window at the sky I must peer through the stomach of a cat digesting —is it a bird?

4 miesiące temu

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