Famous Oakland Poems by Famous Poets
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by
Brautigan, Richard
...ot back to town with the trees, those
guys didn't have any money to pay him off. He had to wait
around the lot in Oakland until they sold enough trees to pay
him off.
"Here's a lovely tree, ma'am. "
"How much7"
"Ten dollars. "
"That's too much. "
"I have a lovely two-dollar tree here, ma'am. Actually,
it's only half a tree, but you can stand it up right next to a
wall and it'll look great, ma'am. "
"I'11 take it. I can put it r...Read more of this...
by
Lehman, David
...that
it shows how little is achieved when these problems
are solved." When I quoted Gertrude Stein's line
about Oakland, "there's no there there," he nodded.
Was there a there, I persisted. His answer: Yes and No.
It was as impossible to feel another's person's pain
as to suffer another person's toothache.
9.
At Cambridge the dons quoted him reverently.
I asked them what they thought was his biggest
contribution to philosophy. "Whereo...Read more of this...
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