If you’re gonna hold a bird, you have to hold it with a certain tension, or it will fly away. But if you crush it, you’re gonna kill it. I gotta learn how to hold the bird.
“colored clothes paper handkerchiefs super cartoons bit of fresh the Pope’s mule inmission do such poor work together in various Poujadist manifestations deep-toned blacks waivers play to the gas Zentralbibliothek Zurich her bare ass with a Teddy bear blatty string kept in a state of suspended tension by a weight cut from the backs of alligators
you can do it too it’s as easy as it looks”
Donald Barthelme | “Alice”