Here’s a guy who’d been drinking cheap wine in a small room for 15 years, had to walk down the hall to the bathroom to take a crap. And when he typed, old ladies beat on their ceilings and floors with broom handles, scaring hell out of him . . . “Shut it up, you fool!” Suddenly out of some trick, he’s known . . . His work is banned, or he walked down Broadway with his pecker hanging out during the Santa Claus Parade and they found out he was a poet . . . Anything will do. Talent helps but it is not always necessary. One of the greatest sentences was said, not by a philosopher but by a baseball
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