Alvah Allen

It was damn close, wasn’t it?! You were sitting in the Sunoco parking lot. I had my budget

The French tried it for years and, I don’t think all that well. You can invent Dada and Surrealism, issue manifestos

Dad, I like you and I’m also like you. We share all of your worst qualities, you and me.

(based on an idea by Anna Reynaud) Here’s how you can tell when winter is about to begin; you think it’s going to be the smoke pouring from the chimneys that gives it…

I tried to give you what I had left. It wasn’t easy. It took some lookin’.

I do, unfortunately, I do. If given the option between knowing a little about a bunch of things

I’ll leave anywhere early. Will 8:30 work for you because I can also do 9? That’s not a problem.

You can be that lovely but, please don’t be from Louisville. You are from Louisville? Tell me you’re kidding me. This is killing me. Now I have to dream up

From the start this is gonna be impolite. I don’t mind that a bit. You made us think we were ugly, where you were ugly.

Somebody once said, some genius once said, "Genius is seeing connections

We ain’t doin’ that We gettin’ donuts We ain’t doin’ that We gettin’ donuts

There’s a footpath that winds ’round the county, dear. Lower and lower it goes and deeper into the mist,

The world is full of things that want to break us. I don’t think it takes a stretch of the imagination to say that. Carolines, Joe Fraziers,

I wrote a couple of damn fine essays in my prime. Lost now to time and my filing system.

Wait until the moon is wrong and then wade into the tide with a hammer. Build your own watch,