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tian Uarold, and delusion Disk,
and nihtmaro Ned.
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what does It mean, ehatts the word,
that miracle t1Linc„ the tUac that
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AM RIGEIT OR WHOM?
*Forget the simmers that
give no mason, forget
the reeeone that do not
expialn.*
(A thin men sits modestly on
a bare park bench, one bony
leg folded over the other, his
%vim, hands resting in his
sunken lap. Th long false is
deeply lined peeeefUl, the
old shoes seanylrut polished,
the worn re ere gisy but
pressed. Ther. isn't a faintest
worry in the shrewd blue eyes.)
People ain't meeherel
at too =Ch. Ytiowrip
yatorraWheittn, held maybe* pint. s majority ople cram
a Whole quart Lad it. What happens? Neuritis, arOltia,
colitis *n so forth.
Take ie question+ sex. Majority #people are sex
OVdo it, Can't stay my froae-wife. Got to
adulterate her. Animas don't do4Iti, insects r410141s. It
Yalkkin sit near a fire, ye doljrhave to lay
right in it, do ;siiftt Ye poison, sem:4w don'
have to go ahead anidrink it. 160 kin drink water, 46
have to drown in it. Am I right or wrong?
Vest naeherel plas. in 'de moil' is de Garibbeans.

Plenty a froot an yUh kin nevi& get oonstipaied. I woe dere
six yeehes ago. Before dat I wuz just an honest dope. Tub
know, work all a time, woman and take everything serious,
Well, suddenly I started in uain my eyes an I *am an meta lot,
dont 1—

I'm Ulna vb..
Fir instance, I discovered de lees a guy works the
more money he's makIn. Ana& a while, I started In mean less,
see? I fiwored you know do my I f/goaral. But smell= went
wrong wid de idea. De less I walked de less I mu* makin. But I
still flggered de same way. So I tried it again. I woiked less
n less. An sure muff, I got less. Well, finally, I yolked
less n less n less, and den I stopped eXtogothere I'm stubborn.
au know. Once I get an Ilea, I don't let go. So I got fired:
So I til:ruct Id blow de stink off and Igoes down to de Carl
bbees. Oat a= heaven.
30ons I can I'm gain' to work on dat problem again.
Go an, find Lia anodder job and find out what gam wrong aid my
systom. -cherallyi, co faro I kin see, personally, it wuz all
right.
lut de Most nachera way of ell is like de way I ha
doin now. :lot welkin at all. It 'a de most dygienic. Row does
it strike ydh„ an I right orinvog?

leder AV ALAN SP
Wrill A gSART PROM THE OLP WORLD
*Chat 7
win ou
Uhetifllyou do?
7,1xEv- ot That will
(An *ging nronx Jew idlest un-
employmont has robbed at status
as rather, husband, lover and
breadwinner. Ile serried young
and worked hard, tilling his
household with egusiks and rages,
although fulfilling all his
duties and satisfying all his
appetites. When his wife took
over his pImee as breadwinner,
he embarked on a frustrated
career as vagabond* Now he finds
he hasn't either the health or
Inclination.. Ds is only a tired
old men. nis narrow brown eyes
are inflamed, and his lips, al.
though still thick and red, smack
with an empty hopeless sound as
be talks.)
and where
What will
you do?"
Go hang yourself with your omft necktie. When I'm
fifty years, an old man, no strolling around with my hands
in my pockota. I'm suddenly a vagabond. I'm telling you I
got specks in my eyes. I'm acres:lin:, in try sleep, I'm ain't
human no more.
After all, human nature is four thing', ain't it?
Clothing:, food, *halter and recreation. In the morning you
wake up, the first thing you put on your clothes, the second
the belly starts in to talk, so you gotta eat. The third
thing you want recreation. So you get tired out, than you
gotta lay down. But where is the bed? We ain't animals,

they oan sleep in a hole in the ground, nature gime thou
their own clothing. About Insects, we ain't talking
neither bedbugs and mosquitoes their whole life is
recreation.
Mut Abel) Ido? sin,st a tub of wisdom, I'm
a plain old man,. 17,f-ke they say around here, I ain't a
thorouzlhbred. Suddenly it's a different world. Yesterday
I'm sure a thing is wrong, today somebody is dntng it. So
if somebody is doing it already, it can't be swone
I'm completely turned around. I'm a not,
It's the world of the eknqpmt and the hot dog. NothinG
balArness
An old men was askIng than for a blanket last
week, I auw It with my own eyes, they sent him to the
hospital. First they kill you, then they are putting a
pillow under your head.
Look, my foto°. Such a face you don't get laying
in the lap or lady ludic. It's three years already I
come home three oscloOk in the morning the kids are in bed
but my wife she's dressed up to kill. Sarah, What's the
matter'? I ma:. She says: I'm Going out. That out? I
say. In the middle of the nidht, out? Go to bed, Sarah.
She says: You go to bed, I'm going out. So a *hole month
.orried and complained and talked and finally she threw
me out of the house altocether. What could I do? It was

I3' property, /was depending on her. Imes ix) mom
sews you underetends not homes eo she *raw me twit
twenty-eix year* ‘00 mes married. The Bible tells zstai.
AIMPOIMMII 11114 an 001.41 t2110 Immoles they seat bin in 4 70Utte
girl she should mks hi* young again. Dist eaX Abrihem
tbo7 should do this with me? invoseiblai Oo get barn all
over *Gain&
A questImat wee I really born? Or mow God
dropped ne through a hole in the ay and I ain't bank yet.
Dead I siatt neither. I'm like stunk In a sewer pipes Ilia
in It, Tim stuffing it up and they're pushing we dean In tbe
river, the 4ast hivor or the !Wean Rivers I got no 'chaos.
'flack I met Go. It ts too lats. Like yesterday
was standing on the breadlines tas it yesterday? that Is
it today? Tuesday? Matte rights yesterdpy I wee standing
there end suddenly a oop hollers* Bseik up. Two hundred
people an the lines be says to them beak up. So be started
in to shoves in two minutes there wee a fight with three
broken heeds. You can't hook up no nom.
one thing I tm finished with UVII and lyinmlip like
they 01114 hem. The whole life it te like a coughs and Wan
youtre living it ts like sucking cough drops it dant* help
the poor people. tnd of course the rich people nothing
helps no mom-- s like a lot of pigs eating picot knuckles.

Mat eon I do? 'loot an Ameriman Spine bat with
a heart from the old vent&
Tbe only thing it*, good Gods a Gatir
won't lot Ltve lg. Matte all

utu AtA7414
"As time, time, time slips
between the fingers end
flows throw& the hinert
time after time it, *ones ID
this, it is a gissettan et
(lhis bigh.strung sidewalk in.
tellostual Is wiry and swarthy
with oily akin end sessiy &jos.
Nis mouth is twisted batsman
salf.pity and bdtter oantempt.
A permonont grivese of satire in
an him lips. earns carfare, and
eoffec.modby selling a swathing
broodSids egosinst Hitler.. A hob.
itus of ths NOW' York Public Lib-
rary, he rounds out his nervous
denunciations of dlointssehip with
oullings from eneyelopodias and
thessureoes.)
I an a scholar of cosmos, my contemporary friend.
Cosmology, histology, pathology, neurology, astro-rh)rtioloGY
and the wtole tuto3.oijy of existence arm my fields. Ts there
a design, a schema, a plan in tLis world? no, I dreier°, no,
no and *min no.
The world is tottering toward eetawtropho, my friend,
it is nufferin& fluctuations, alterations, transfermations,
in Short, flux La order to save their front lawns and
linousines, the camomile royalist g*nt! of psychopaths, para-
noiacs, neurasthenics And mogalemmniaes in rthort„ butchers

are plotting to delude deter, detract, deceIve, extort us
with national ism, patriotism, aryaniam, racialism in
short, Everywhere trepidation, bonnwination4 anxiety
prevail. In ahort, litters*
The poor people may vacillate, fluctuate, hesitate
and waver. But, my contemporary they will win their re-
venge* The disinherited will lave their cosmic revenge.
promise it. Picture for yourself, for example, their grave
and oars* rirst, ours. Look at me* Ilta emaciated, dose.
sated, lacerated, withered in short, dried up. imagine me
dead* I'm lying there like a sobIemiel in a cheap coffin of
lived, bleached, knotty lumber in abort, a pine box* nlong
oome the worm, the round worms, the flat worms, the earth
worms, the tape...worms in tort, worms. They're wriggling
and squirming, they're *earoling for eomethIng to eat that's
nutritious and nourisihing* They smell here, they smell there,
nibble a piece here, a piece there, Phooey. Like an old
baked apple. Every bite produces nausea, dizziness, wind, loss
of appetite* I'm left in peace.
.,ew the scene ahifts. It is now P. morgaa's grave.
A baz of delicate mood, of sensitive fibre, of finest grain*
A corpse that's fresh and rich and stimulant summers in Bar
Harbor, winters in Palm Beach* It's a toothsome bit of softlA
carnivorae* In Short stuffed, klahke* Now *inter the worm*
7e's still Erlspicious from his meal at my Grave• 1 cautious

sniff and a nibble and EA-EA-A-A.4.-ARI What hove we bore?
Ac h du Lieber. No coal or lunch or dlrAner but a repeat a
banquet raro* a feast* Be rings the dinner gang and they all
come runninc In droves the ring -worms* the earthworms* tho
round worms* the flat worms* the tapeworms and presto& it's a
skull and bones. You see? it the cosmic revenge of the or.
But not for me, No, my conteacxuwaiy. I must have Jay revenge
now* rvw, now. Who can trifle with lockouts* walkouts* welkin**
sitdowns* Ploeping? I was never hired* so I can never be fired.
ny strie is a one -can boycott of the whole world. YOu see?
blockade the universe
Now look into the future. Cast pour imagination
into the evistal globs. Every day more and more people out of
wort, every day more and more joirtng my ranks* year by year
more and more and more million, and billions thrmughout the
world Are you follewinc me? Do you see the vision* the
sTparitian* the overpowering apocalyptic panorama? A whoa°.
world* my friend* without a single pore= at intik,
0
Colossal. 0 .What? .What keeps me from going mad?
Inv* words* my contemporary* lust words.

7:11.4. 0 T1 T_ C1LIGT
"Ills metropolitan dive,
jaamomi Idth rot* collemomma,
the derellots4 the adocrwerepor„
mood by the pimp
of sammirtima and phq, throw;
the auditeiriume, packed with
weeping arelditong, your went;
the aortues, tenanted by your
friend*: the free dWmal :u
A war and a depression have made
this veteran a mental cripple at
forty. There are deep furrows in
his boned face and hie
bandstrumbim. All be bee left
is a vioked eentieental leer in
the pale blue oyes.: HO was lying
an the grass in Control Park with
a derelict arum and yesumen. A
"world'a Pair broad° passed by and
be straightened up quickly, put am
his bat, oast and tle and went off
to *make* her: From the back, be
looked dapper and jaunty even if
his clothes were c.)
Ile who shuns' wine, women and song in /ant a fool his
Whole life inc. (Inas Kanum• That £17 wee right: All a
these World's Fair broads pesain up and dawn, real blouson',
and I cotta lay on the grass an watoh. I oughta take a stroll
ta Wall 3treet and draw some doudh but it's too dam far.
tried to book the Chrysler 3uildin but they wouldn't take it.
Then T sold the Essex Mouse but T couldn't collect. N ow all
aot is this dime and I'm look In for its borther. If I don't
find 4t before tonichts I'll just hafta go up and sit down by
the window and listen ta tho radio:
"r ain't used ta it. I hate then furnished rooms

since that taste of heaven my wife gime. Player piano*
ITcks, radio. II icabox steaks, chops* the beet. All
she asked me to do was stay home ana tale care of the house.
When ahe come home at night she always threw a coupla peeks
or cigarettes on the table.
Nal* I couldn't stand it. T felt in a house-
maids goddam domestic. One mornin the loft ninety' cents
for my landh and the kidla, crack:ors when c oome horn from
school, and a ahow. Well, I hocked the radio and boudht a
quart for the boys and we went to work on a coupla bottles.
iThien
woke up next mornin they 'VMS gone.
gueas like lain on the grass too mndh• Teach
worc an long hours only gets you an early grave, don't it?
Liao my old MOM4 Layin under the Lyound there. Layin there
and lau,Jain. 3ons "a0a sayln, :ou co ahead now, I'm layin
down an rest,
1 didn't even give I= a _lathers :Jay present week be.
fore he died. I figured it's coercialism* anyway., it don't
matter. Le ya ain't got the guts to remember your mother and
father every day in the year aud ya gotta depend on phoney
°ammo-re/alien ya don't deserve a mothami* ye deserve ta be
born from a pig, a whole litter* goddam it, a 'Mole goddam
litter. I: my duster ever tries bringin me candy on
Aithers Day I'll kick or in the can.

If She an ter mother ooms beaks I awen• I keep
my soul full of hope. I ain't lagin down like my old
an take a rest. I read in the papers some idle rioh ggy
abut himself up in his room it aux ths BOOM Muse, and
stuffed up the windows and the door and got i.slf oneeed tsp.
Mast of been too dark so be dooisd to find his may out. Me
lit a eigarette• Be found his way out all right• Elm and
the whole roue there blew outs ths window* 0 o
times tar0 book in thy flit and make we a kid again /ust
for tonight. 741 know What I'd dos if 1 ever decided to sort
of tilos a rests tale a long swlm out in the menu Attar a
while I'd get tired but I'd keep on swimmin and than I'd get
so tired I couldn't lift my arm at silo Then I'd get seared
and turn around and swim for shore but I'd never reach its
sae? I'd try like bell ta cot back and I'd go under tryinl•
It'd be like life that way, ya manna live but ya gotta dla•
Lissom, ya sure ya can't gloms the brother ta this
dimer or do I hafts' go down ta the river bank and drew a
coupla breaths of alx1 4. •Yia jvst as broke as I ama.
Talkin sure gets ye nowhere fast*
I gotta *moray outs here quick. This grass city is
only a paradise for pigeons.

4-110X---sterir1277--Inan
This giant of a
his lean stomach
shoulders, vee
large prime 21,-1
strides erow
Shines, tone
the bowling ee
Hie untriemed
shoulders, his
conceal* a rod
Si". mean end
novo is a bar
atill
tall
neat,
aSbi
ghost
tz'israh with
hardpboned
lean arms In
geeturee. Ti.
stops short
to, barks to
t or the crowd.
flows to his
grey beard
his blue eyes
enable
beak. .An actor alma's,
be an3oys thief attention. even the
oonteiipt, ofythe eromdi since be is
superior to(it.)
SH.A.i.A.AVEN AND 3110.0-0-ORNI.
0
pauper, 0,
t 0,
lotion. 0,
tmrget, 0,
strong,
proapeotiva
Listen, God desired to put hair on a men's face so be put it
there. Woman be desired to make beautiful so he made her fees
smooth. In manta face be put wonderful ha.e.apwatr GOD made
VE a mANt...SHEE10. SLAVES... Whereto your individuelityl Where's
your personelitr Where's your eingularity?.....Wn were you
ORN? Slavery SLAVERri...70n& Why don't 7..t, above your head,
TO0?....Half man. Wamen. MIXER& MaTATION REN...800-eaterl
SWIM.EATERt... Seine. Dooms and 1.WER
And ....SHO...0.0-ORNI (WEANS INTO
SONO)

They look so pitiful, so sad
So mIsarsbls, s-o...o-o forlorn*
And theywander, wrna-a-s-nder
O m -by -y. -q -y sore they barn
To be shaven and thorn.***
COWARDS1****COWAHDSt....
06-0-0-0-H
U -E -E -E is en average non*
Go all the world around.
Six menthe in jail and six months out
He LS an average mom*
4m10:0==MONNTir
They sat so very queer
When they are full of
RST.411T1 SWIM, BOOZE AND SEW
Kitt hers on Union Square.****
BARI
In oontempt
While the drunken znat
Talk ama7
just ma swity.
(DON'T WALK SO FAST. WEILL GET BLI:ITIVS ON OUR
•Ims &CHICK,
CEILX„ CRIOL„
Cowards* Cowards** *Sneak' Preaki**.Go back to the coffin, all
of you*

IT'S 'VA( TIKX ORI*400407
This edeleseemt is Walt
Whitnen's dhild Ube forth
and who Objee looked
upon, be e is still
searobing identity. The
girl face, \tb t mouth, the
*hipping o with the
scarred knu s t piece to-
gether into lank hundred
pounds of e and knees. Loose
Impulses in and out of the
tired intinc acaine.
the sun* ia rda eon. out new
vague, now ilttit but always pemz/ed.)
could tuft out to be the biggest sueeeee if it
(1.
wasn't for one thinc I can't pla7 dirty tries on people.
dminme, I like to be with the tniya tst are bnokinlit, net
duck inc it, yeo-know what I n*an? I despise the suekera. Ton
4M4e depression generation I oen't wait. I got4ta'ro off
and do szaithimibig r,ght away. Get surathirpvirgin and play
it. Via:- It Ut :nthinihappens around here. thy is
that? Some man 40z talkinto in thc park here ones told
abc-4t :(!oses, Low 7.1,- used to zo around like this too until
he aot flIst-i-usbed. After a while, he mold, the older guys
they died orf, then Moses Imo boas. Is that a feet? geter-
welt the same as Yeses? It's from time immemorial, like the
men slid? My personal idea if thing' 'iMtmi different I oould

amount to wamithin I could be a leader maybe* A Capone, a
Sehnits, one 4theIi.not one ii!the mob* Like Moses way on
top* Why not? I come from smart people, I got what it takes,
I satoh on quick to anythingo.*** Day lookit* Them two girls
holdinftedh other around* Is it true about them? Jokes, i'llo4t's.
'I.•
Shame* Iney'rd-vretty
Loneliness? I did*
don't help* I
whetta wronz with me si
II•
DUO ever reed the Well of
Got the, beat books embit(the library, it
books don't do me no good* Why is that?
I gotta snap out of it... One
ttrie last sprint, I tch.41tked to Philly far three days* It's
a filiwy thins, hitch-hlking„ maybe you got a million worries
on yvux hoed but ymu hit the road end everything disappears
11: -co magic, you forget everything* when I got beak to Wee 700k
iti.pairrIone in the morning* I didn't feel like goinibome $o
eons over to the peek here and I laid down right on this bench
end stood there all night* There woa *therms on the other
bombes and I laid there with my eyes open and looked up at
the stars and before I knew it the sparrows wee eingtirin the
trees* T Amn't never feel lonely in this perk,
4/
like it hero, I sort, friendship, I guess* That's
important, ain't it? That's the dreamy side of me, suppose*
like it that way amM-6tines I go to a movie, than I walk
around thLWancio, Lot" things* The 'bole world* Money, for
Instance* Suppoeinli wan a big prises What would do, Would
T spend it or put it away in the bank or would I go nuts?

43.
Sometimes I go to the movies taloa a meek and I this
gams aereeno• Every day aomabody is naver son owe*
That may Itm different fro -a other people. Bo luoic„. Unmoor
U I won? I'd o ahead and buy a whole outfit and sail ef to
same island: Some plan, nobody svor sone bettor*. In Africa
or .tustralia or South Amerlea. One of thar. places. I'd buy a
gun and a knapsaak and breeches and boots, and a knife and a
trip,
meelAnsw and, I I guess I'd travel. nowhera in parti-
f.rrosr. Just travel armind And then again, maybe I wouldn't.
"eybe T i spend the whole money an my old lady. Sand her out to
Lakewood for the winter. "Tie's*. what I moan? There's two sides
to my nature. That's the difference? I don't win anyhow.
me3'b I on't deserve it. I :Irma -always the flamer of the class
the bloominidiest. now hard 1' try I can't control myself frma
beinflbad. I'm glens thinkinlof things that don't do me no
good. Fiddles and things what's at no loco and maks, or
lent's rot eyes and can't sae, or whet turns without rovInct.
The trouble la I got things on my mind. Jeesi non the stork
1?
bri:',uert rse to my o34 lady tiva meta said to her: ita to you,
Ifadase.."
II II it
I dunno, it's too much for so, I can't make it out.
Yaybe it's like that man said to me once; *It's from tin,
immemorial, slum.* All I know this kindeOlfs is glvinems
pimples. I got no more morel standards. That do you think,
that yeast stuff they talk about on the radio is that cood
for pimp&esa
0 0

YOU
PZGtTTU OJA
beneath the
the wrist
from Bearn's I
selves et her
under the shos
the pale abut
like *spinet
you teak
smile and
eyes you,
Brian
her
helpless, angry bears
abs la a thin, timid gumine)aming
typist. The banes at hi
dress
the
show
tea
Itylmlnket
Sharp, the
are tee
hessIsatreal t tee Oarbew.
ammieus oyes. If
out se the
by trust ant of the
a skeleton loge
a. at an island and
in feet, if you struck
deep, the eyes mould fill with
my boss, that nosey thing, heus always sitticOmn
me with them overmdeveleped missies until I set siek and tired.
Shore I got the insantitive that day I don't knew.
Maybe it was beams. I was wearing white. I like Whites I wear
everything with a %bite wellara it makes me feel good.
The boss was in the front with a big customer* I wee
sitting there and typing like agrhaext would break. I mos
hankering far life. Rees, I said to myself, in this day and
age you can't figure on a lifetime. marriage in setting pushed
further and fUrther in the background, if you're single it's no

up frost re, desk, I opened the door and I
Mr. Sternberg, you een wait a hundred sears and
you'll ne typist like me. Look at Ely bear, mar 'bite
blouse, ay iils. I never look unruly, Its never idle a minute
end I get artistic .W40 ty besides. next payday I went twelve
dollars.
a Jewish trait, In front of a customer a gay
would think but soy something? Mevag BB opened up his bit
mouth right sway and pushed out his sialsolee and be yelledt
also Noeenthel, see me in the bank. The most terrible thing,
you understand, see me in the beak: I don't knee, T wasn't even
seared. I was in the mood of mak laiiamonyx, nothing bothered me.
Listen, don't you think they know if you're worth it to their;
They got big mouths but they know if you're worth it, don't
worry. You think be fired me?
I'm tolling you from that day until ha lost his
business he ma so nips to me like my °Mee boy, he used to
bring me up milk *hakes. ne ems at my beak and well.
Before he vas sitting on me, in the future every.
thing ass In reverse was sitting an him.

*Aro
fast, a privilagid
as usual/ to
brunt yourself?*
(This stooped over
phil.esopher with his bands in
his packets started talking *hen
they pat hi* 011 relief and he
won't stop until they put hi*
bask to work. Worry his mode
his foes pasty end /20 ashes _ire
to sleep as little as possible
so he eon antraust himself into
tolerating his sorrid. Ile is in
his late thirties of average
height end his seliA body has
grown fat through dimes.)
I admit it, Iva a hog. In other words haman. I enjoy
women and a pair of deuglnuits like anybody else. Say tomorrer) I
wake up Iva covered in ocosaunisa, say I sell go mod gat what I
wont by asking —Is mat six wives. You Maybe mat 24 suits end
him. they gM his teolve yaehts °the:raise hes miserable.
Ilero enter, were all. deprived so long we went nuts. Plain hogs.
ohenisal, you (wet do nothirg. etre 20% water, 1120, eto.
and 10% misselleneous.sodirso ballast omen hydrogen potassium
Pho•Phorus wishes and so forth. In this kind -world 2 plus 2
makes be Look at me. -s.rurt- Ito among the world of missing awn.
Its* so insigrAfteant if they sent out a radio *all for me a

hain47.*ed years nobody would find me. T, an it dirt monkey.
could write my whole will on a postage stamp, not a tangle coin
of the realm you'll find in, my pocket, I ain't got enour% real
estate to put in a flower pot. Men Why &het:1d I sinc
country 'tis of thee or welcome sweet springtimeI reet you in
song? And yet, my friend, you can never tell the way you stand
y the way you're bitting down. Listen to whzt I'm genes say
to you now, --the bacteriologist of today was himself a betteria
in primeval times. 511,4 Think that over...
Myself, I'm a aight-have-been. I Gould tell you
sometnin elao--Iim a Genius and OD forth, after all, you're a
stranger to no. 7.:Nit it ain't what you call yourself, you can
say you're Jesus and you ain't even 3t.Patrick. True? 'oat of
my life I was lost inside a sweat shop like a fly in winter time.
You go into it a man and you cone out cock,:eyed hunchbacked
knockkneed pigeons.toed flatchested,--you're a wash -rag and a
walking prospect for the undertaker. You amtits put a mark an
your feet to know right arom left. The gray matter and the
different parts of the cerebellum are deflated.
So I was fired. The boss said he go”a make sacri-
fices he started with me. efore, I was lost, after I was still
worse. I had bicycles in my brain. I was alking myself always:
Am I coming from or goinr to? Hero I was free, the whole day in
the air, in the sun, but still I was Groping, the park and the
shop was the same.

one swallow don't make a summer. iien you're alone
you can bark at the moon like a boozie dog, you can go sit down
on the around and open up your mouth you'll catch mosquitoes,
that's all.
A c1-4ain is stronc like Its weakest link and that
was me. I Aon't may I didn't let on a lotta hot air in them
trying 1AI:eatIt's a free country. 1 lived by my own oxygen.
But also we z)3t, a, check and balance syatom here, there ain't
no dictatorship, nobody gets away with murder, you can manifest
ycurself, true, you can express yourself, but the other guy can
check up on :rrn I. he wants to.
zot plenty cheek up but in the end I was a
citLz of the world I lidn't bow down to the dollar, T was
rnalcnxl, proi;ressive. followed the head, you under-
st.enti
the c,thers follome4 the rear end, they were retro-gressive.
You find some people tn thL Iay and aim they like to bc both.
If
71 1 Ln the z.ttory they're up in the nron too,
tnesc budweisers, tnese political fors. VIwy clii if you're
in a steel; room at the hic;hest tur4perature you're frwasing and
ii ru nto t frigidaire you're het. T.hydoes ice smoke?
Titay oli yru:because- it went crazy with the frost. TIAsy're
alwayc a- it's hot as Is warm while it's frcezIng it
should be cold thala it's be hot? 7-34h1 I enuldn't
stoop rself so low. Thc averik;c nen should think twice before
he pe end then shut up.

Thloh rerainds me ain't it time for me too? Dare
I'm ridInl; a whole cavalry of ideas and I ain't got enowt to
bu7 (tout, to If bad lire to live over amain I'd choose
ar exinterce of plwaty. citherwise it's better for us to shut
our oyes, tie undertaker downtown Gpt a special this week.
mos= this, this whole spiel. Itto an explosion,
ism an explara.tion„ of one th I ot cursed with a
social consciesnesz 4aX A1 I would like to do something
aly)ut it can't. Train I ct plenty, but the will power of a
Chinese 7sk!.no.

'MA! M OCO P1, COMMIS
A ehy little man wearing a droopy
bleak suit, s end trimmer
of 'blab long for the
little erns ther bleak
eyes are round slew, although
the faintest timer pain
brings out ins* exit he Ihnddere
at even the timer ernelicr and
vieleneso t he radiates et
faith in pride
andj. Re emaght serenad-
ing the the eafeteria
000nter th a rendition of the song:
Is Like An ftenlig Prayer.
las voles ia big and resonant.
Mos, it's a wonderful voice. And it ain't no
expense neither* A little eggnogs, some iteide's pastilles
and it comes out clear like a 'canary. That's m7, nickname in
the sewer Sam, the Canary. Rough laborers, they ain't
artistic and sensitive like girls, but they call as the canon,
thay
an account of ny voice don't won a voice. I
hate to say I, my. It's a born void', that's all. It happens
by accident it nines it's a closeure. It's an inspiration,
it gives me a zood appetite, it makes me happy. Except at
nidht I eat toto
it gets screechy.
of coffee and supper, I feel so heavy
too tired, it (effects the vane, you

understand. The sliitsat thtn6 makes it reedhy. I didn't
know till three, fonr years ago I even bed it. Nobody told me.
VIP site never told me. She tried to kill it, even. She was a
nervous woman* irritable a born nerd. She put we an a
pedestal and mod* en idol out of me, than she knodked me off.
I got annulled.
I went to werk in the mowers for NFL. It was an
accident one dry I wee shovelling and I began to sing. The
boys hollered for an moors. I was surprised. It ems an
napiration* it put life into them. Sinse that time everybody
sells me Bing Crosby, Junior* because Ihs an mature. Your
"Mole life you go around* nobody tells you, nobody is decent
enough* now Ilia nine Junior.
Ny uncle had a baby be mired him Dennis. So what?
The kids on the block sell hist Uzgy. Voolisbness ry name
is Sam Rosen* plaino I don't care who asks. June 6th I'm
singing in A Low's Theater mature nour* shall I go and ohmage
my name/ Tom a citriwide *mature. 601 Madison Avenue* that's
WNW there* downstairs is a eonfeetionery* they gave me an mud'.
tiono they give me auditions all over. I sing in one room they
listen in mother room over the miorophone* the receiver* the
amplifier* whatever you cell it. Then when nos through.* I
bear them Bey: "Thank you. it's an inspiration* the way they
say it. "Thank you." Moat of the time they ask for an encore*
too. It's an *kW/ration* you got a better appetite* you don't
feel like an appendage. Today it's so busy, by sleek everybody
is demoralised. They don't know where to look. If s person
looks up at the sky and somebody *whispers he's a Messiah* they

follow his. They don't 1aw no better, they're lonletng for an
inspiration. Like on Forty Second Street, let one person only
look up, ever/body is looking.
ry inspiration, I need to L;erenekle a girl. When I
bear the call of nature, to satisfy my cravings, follow my sex
nature, I need a mete. But can't locate her. I got a good
nature, I'm quiet, not like other laborers, but since I'm
ann-Illed I can't locate my ideal. I'm going to a matrIPinvisol
bureau. A friend of mine, I know him a long time. He's opening
a new office now on 42nd Street, he's sending me a post card, he
expects to get the American type, educated. I'm looking for a
lady with a brother or a father they're in business and they'll
allow ac to work far them.
I'm not satisfied with the girls he got now. They're
fat or they're widows or they got children. Only one girl, al*
was slim., with a good skin, three inches taller than no, we
clicked right away. But Oben we got through talking in the offise
there, I asked her telephone number, she *aids "Get a steady job,
I'll keep company." Thet ain't my Ideals Go get a steady job.
At what? Fixing fountain pens?
The only thing I got to depend on is the voice. The
sewer work is only ton eleven days a month so the rest of the
time I go to school. I take up French, acting, I learn damning,
classical dancing, even fencing. For poise, you understand«
Like a real opera singer, only it don't cost me a penny. It's
IPA culture courses: It's a pleasure, an Inspiration. Thank
God for Columbus.