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Pat Cummings
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Biology, they said. You can postpone it, but you can’t prevent it. She’d watched the Olympics on television that summer, months ago, now, and had been struck by how young the gymnasts were.
“Whenever Richard Cory went down town,
we people on the pavement looked at him:
He was a gentleman from sole to crown,
clean favored, and imperially slim.
And he was always quietly arrayed,
and he was always human when he talked;
but still he fluttered pulses when he said,
"Good morning," and he glittered when he walked.
And he was rich - yes, richer than a king -
And admirably schooled in every grace:
In fine, we thought that he was everything
to make us wish that we were in his place.
So on we worked, and waited for the light,
and went without the meat, and cursed the bread;
And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,
went home and put a bullet through his head.”
―
we people on the pavement looked at him:
He was a gentleman from sole to crown,
clean favored, and imperially slim.
And he was always quietly arrayed,
and he was always human when he talked;
but still he fluttered pulses when he said,
"Good morning," and he glittered when he walked.
And he was rich - yes, richer than a king -
And admirably schooled in every grace:
In fine, we thought that he was everything
to make us wish that we were in his place.
So on we worked, and waited for the light,
and went without the meat, and cursed the bread;
And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,
went home and put a bullet through his head.”
―
“i remember we all cried like the Missouri
when my Uncle Sol's coffin lurched because
somebody pressed a button
(and down went
my uncle
Sol
and started a worm farm)”
―
when my Uncle Sol's coffin lurched because
somebody pressed a button
(and down went
my uncle
Sol
and started a worm farm)”
―
“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.”
―
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.”
―
“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”
― A Civil Campaign
― A Civil Campaign
“In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is.”
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Pat Cummings’s 2025 Year in Books
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