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Adam and Eve

shivering pair with gold red fingers bare willow branches our merry boys and girls frozen rivulets Adam and Eve spoke Dutch
Who’s minding the store?

After the German philosopher Eric Gutkind sent Albert Einstein a copy of his tome Choose Life: The Biblical Call to Revolt on salvation, Einstein responded (in German) in a short note and mailed it to the author. (The cost of mailing a letter was 3¢.) Both Einstein and Gutkind had German-Jewish origins and had the(…)
Runner beans rubbing shoulders

is this garden deliberate? two streams running through runner beans rubbing shoulders
Falseness of a former life

all aglow kindliness and weariness he meditated on the use he should devote to that power of youth which is granted to man only once Cossack children spinning their tops wherever there is a smooth place climbing over fences to avoid going around the other side of the river was deserted as yet no mistakes(…)
No one can remember

far from Golgotha you too, God, you are ill with me I’ve wept your tears not a policeman for nothing it might have been the same bottle of gin stained with gin the image of George VI dinner with the Commissioner a house in Kent when she’s gone I’ll be alone forever imploring fingers in(…)
Too early

I’m ready, once again, too early music halls and theatre ‘Marie, there, just behind you.’ the Russian dancers trying to get warm 10:22: rifle shots, barking Finale of the dogs 10:47: Russian dancers 11:10: I !!! I !!! made up in red and mauve smoked to the bitter end this hideous December night Sunday again(…)
October ferry

The branches of the trees brushed beginning: beginning again: beginning yet again: here we go, into the blue morning in this country I started at $8 a month one winter afternoon of thunder and snow he felt as if he had swallowed a bolt of lightening and now you saw the tempestuous sky brighten as(…)

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The Potato Eater

Adam and Eve

Who’s minding the store?

Runner beans rubbing shoulders

Falseness of a former life

No one can remember

Too early

October ferry

Books By Alison Leslie Gold
The Potato Eater The raw true story of Padric, a gay hustler from the Bronx who spent 1941-1965 in and out of 20 prisons