The Financial Lives of the Poets
“The Financial Lives of the Poets The Last Days of the Newspaper Business I DREAMED I WAS ON my bike, delivering the last paper to the final porch and I tossed that rag at least a mile— last dream of a democratic press—and the end of papers fell like a snowflake onto the faded wood planks of my old man’s porch, and he came out in slippers, picked it up, slipped off the rubber band—and the thing exploded with fresh despairs: new Vietnams and Watergates, Mansons and Patty Hearsts, not to mention... Andy Capp and Hi and Lois, horoscopes, a Crossword puzzle, box scores—even the obit of my poor mother. And my old man told me not to cry, that even good things die, son, and he folded that paper back up and tucked the only good thing I ever did under his arm, easing back into the warm house of my dead childhood to take his morning shit.MoreLess
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