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the idiot | I believe the thought came to me/ when i was abt 11yo:/ I’ll become an idiot./ /I had noticed some in the neighbourhood,/ those who the people called/ “idiots”.

we ain’t got no money, honey, but we got rain 180-288 (ļoti patika, izjusts)
oh, I was a ladies man! 302-305
the area of pause 331 (ļoti patika)
it’s a shame 336
hangover .. drunks are never forgiven./ /but drunks will forgive themselves/ because they need to drink/ again. ..
they are everywhere 342-344

we ain’t got no money, honey, but we got rain (280)

(i like this part of the book better)
Elvis lives
the science of physiognomy
wandering in the cage was a beautiful one

mugged (much abt dying is getting ready)
..and i thought, they must be wrong.
then this would be followed
with a thought much worse
than that:
I could be a
fool:..being a fool is normal (from the writer)
they don’t eat like us had great mood and hit close
let me tell you (hell is built piece by piece brick by brick around you. it’s a gradual, not a rapid process. We build our own inferno, blame others. ..

the flashing of the odds 114/115
peace 118

living too long takes more than time

the genius 127 (he wears everyone out but himself)
now 136

waiting (107)

Pulled down shade
dinner, 1933
fophouse “those men were all children once what has happened to them?”