City That Reads: Baltimore Signs and Markings Volume 30
Patrick Swickard
8.5"x11" paperback, 198 pages
Teddy sniffing glue he was twelve years old
Fell from the roof on East Two-nine
Cathy was eleven when she pulled the plug
On twenty-six reds and a bottle of wine
Bobby got leukemia, fourteen years old
He looked like sixty-five when he died
He was a friend of mine
...
G-berg and Georgie let their gimmicks go rotten
So they died of hepatitis in upper Manhattan
Sly in Vietnam, bullet in the head
Bobby OD'd on Drano on the night that he was wed
They were two more friends of mine, two more friends that died
...
Mary took a dry dive from a hotel room
Bobby hung himself from a cell in The Tombs
Judy jumped in front of a subway train
Eddie got slit in the jugular vein
And Eddie, I miss you more than all the others
And I salute you brother
...
Those are people who died, died
Those are people who died, died
Those are people who died, died
Those are people who died, died
They were all my friends, and they died...
- Jim Carroll
We buy houses. Little trees. Taxi permits. Yard sales. RIP Peter Pan. Little Free Libraries. Wifi menaces. Mount Royal Tavern. Waverly. Eddie's sandwiches. BAMF. People Who Died. Sidewalk dicks. Tomato time. Barber signs. Tax services. Bail Bonds. Jank. Jank. Jank. Jank. Jank. Canton revisited. Swallow solicitations. Play posters.
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