...Versus The Springhill Mine Disaster

[ill_fitted_sole]

When one of my best friends was away for college, she would come home and visit in the summer, and one year, she brought back The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster by Richard Brautigan. That year-- maybe blame it on the fact that I was 19, maybe blame it on the fact that I was in love with someone who smirked at me too often, someone who

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[grand_illusion]

what's good about richard brautigan

[ill_fitted_sole]

I think I really like him because he sounds gentle. And I feel he's straightforward. Even when he's using metaphors which I think are often remarkable, he's still somehow very straightforward to me. I guess I used to think reading about turds and horse child breakfasts and penises (which have all at some point shown up in his poetry) was silly. But as I get older I find myself mixing the "profound" and the "profane" in my own conversations and well that's another reason I like Brautigan. And oh, I feel that wasn't quite what I meant to say, but I guess this will have to do, and hello!

[ill_fitted_sole]

what! I never say "hello!". what am i the guy on moviefone.

[kvschwartz]

Happy birthday.

[ill_fitted_sole]

Thank you.