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We went to a bar. Discussed new dimensions
for the writing of words and making of books.
Shuffled thoughts like cards, and suddenly
he threw the deck out.
"We're still building pyramids for the Pharoahs."
He was getting weepy. I looked where he looked.
New buildings going up, old crumbling pi…

I wondered once
How many hours
Should be needed
for a
Day's Pay.
I've come to the
conclusion
that if they were
all worked
when one
felt good
We'd work until we
Died

I'm sort of glad
That there are those
that are
Bad
Then I know each day will
end and
some Part of It
will be
Fo…

Time for a smoke,
the locker nearly full:
Fourteen tons of
Swanson Chicken Dinners
for the American
officers' club in Taiwan
(breasts, thighs, drumsticks);
Six tons of wings, necks, and backs
bulk packed
bound for Sonny's Supermarket
on Pago Pago;
three tons of chicken stomachs,
a gift …