Lifshin, Lyn

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THE HOTEL LIFSHIN IS RAISING ITS RATESit can no longer afford to operate as it had taking in strays and tightwads changing the sheets for each guest, never re-using any tea bag. Regular guests who've come to expect special service, caviar at a budget rate, free lunch days are over.The hotel is not a welfare nation. As the painter I wanted in 1970 told me what you give away is valued just that much. So if you want the hotel to put out there'd better be something coming in.PIED PIPER OF THE MIDWESTIn Evanston they were wearing the same masks as he was under their skin and in Normal too driving 600 miles in beat up pickups grew the same beards even the women camping before his motel door boys with corn hair down their shoulders and cornflower blue eyesEach woman opened to him like peonies moistened by his words after the reading opened to arms that seemed able to hold everyoneIT WAS LIKE HEARINGabout the man who bit the dog or the house burned down be cause it was dirty when after saying I was 7 1/4 on a scale of because I wasn’t young as I was in 1972, shld have a Benz not a dumb Ford he frowns how the hell could any shrink tell his wife he was insensitiveON MORNINGS LIKE THISthe poems slinks away like a 10 day old kitten terrified in a new house darting under beds and chairs wriggling from hands that only wanted to feed itIT WAS LIKEfinding a woman's hand sticking from a mattress behind a clap board Schenectady Cape Cod or stepping on a mine trying to clean a mine field11

Pied Piper of the Midwest

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Pied Piper of the Midwest

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