Famous Up The Creek Poems by Famous Poets
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Brautigan, Richard
...y more,
and he looked so old that the children thought he must be evil
to live by himself, and they were afraid to go up the creek
near his shack.
It didn't bother Mr. Hayman. The last thing in the world
he had any use for were children. Reading and writing and
children were all the same, Mr. Hayman thought, and
ground his wheat and tended his kale and caught a trout or
two when they were in the creek.
He looked ninety years old for thirty y...Read more of this...
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Brautigan, Richard
...on Carrie Creek and pitched the tent and took our goods out of the car and piled them in the tent.
Then we drove up the creek a ways, above the place where
there were beaver darns and the trout stared back at us like
fallen leaves.
We filled the back of the car with wood for the fire and I
caught a mess of those leaves for dinner. They were small
and dark and cold. The autumn was good to us.
When we got back to our camp, I saw the shepherd's wag...Read more of this...
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Brautigan, Richard
...Hot Springs was nothing fancy. Somebody put some
boards across the creek. That was it.
The boards dammed up the creek enough to form a huge
bathtub there, and the creek flowed over the top of the boards,
invited like a postcard to the ocean a thousand miles away.
As I said Worsewick was nothing fancy, not like the
places where the swells go. There were no buildings around.
We saw an old shoe lying by the tub.
The hot springs came down off...Read more of this...
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