Not yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for a boy; as a squash is before 'tis a peascod, or a codling when 'tis almost an a...pple. 'Tis with him in standing water between boy and man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Too often when you thought you'd be showered with confetti What they flung at you was a plate of hot spaghetti... You've put your fancy clothes and flashy gems in hock Yet you pause before your father's door afraid to knockLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The colored people arrive, sit firmly down, Eat their Express Spaghetti, their T-bone steak,... Handling their steel and crockery with no clatter, Laugh punily, rise, go firmly out of the door.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I shou...ld live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but i...n America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Today everything is different. I can't even get decent food. Right after I got here I ordered some spaghetti with marinara sauce a...nd I got egg noodles and catsup. I'm an average nobody, I get to live the rest of my life like a schnook.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The great networks are there to prove that ideas can be canned like spaghetti. If everything ends up by tasting like everything el...se, is that not the evidence that it has been properly cooked?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am filling the room with the words from my pen.... Words leak out of it like a miscarriage. I am zinging words out into the air and they come back like squash balls. Yet there is silence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »