The Gutter And the Grave
“I’m a drunk. I think we’d better get that straight from the beginning. I drink because I want to drink. Sometimes I’m falling-down ossified, and sometimes I’m rosy-glow happy, and sometimes I’m cold sober—but not very often. I’m usually drunk, and I live where being drunk isn’t a sin, though it’s sometimes a crime when the police go on a purity drive. I live on New York’s Bowery.
There’s some talk that now with the Third Avenue El demolished, real estate values will soar and the city will clean... out the Bowery and make it a respectable high-priced business district. All right. When they do, I’ll move elsewhere. There’s always an elsewhere for people who are running from something. I’m running from a ghost. The ghost is named Matt Cordell.
There’s a little park just outside Cooper Union. During the school term, the park is full of art and engineering students. The young girls come out in their paint-daubed smocks and puff on their cigarettes as if this is the last smoke before the firing squad takes over.MoreLess
There’s some talk that now with the Third Avenue El demolished, real estate values will soar and the city will clean... out the Bowery and make it a respectable high-priced business district. All right. When they do, I’ll move elsewhere. There’s always an elsewhere for people who are running from something. I’m running from a ghost. The ghost is named Matt Cordell.
There’s a little park just outside Cooper Union. During the school term, the park is full of art and engineering students. The young girls come out in their paint-daubed smocks and puff on their cigarettes as if this is the last smoke before the firing squad takes over.MoreLess
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