Roy Blount Jr.
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Song to Grease
Jul. 31, 1995
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Song to Grits
Jul. 31, 1995
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Song to Oysters
Jul. 31, 1995
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Song to Eggs
Oct. 4, 1993
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Peaches
Oct. 23, 1993
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Butter
Dec. 25, 1993
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Song to Onions
May. 18, 2002
May. 18, 2005
Roy Blount Jr.
“They improve everything, pork chops to soup, and not only that but each onion's a group.”
—from "Song to Onions" by Roy Blount, Jr.
“Unlike the Eskimos we only have one word for snow but we have a lot of modifiers for that word.”
—from "Too Much Snow" by Louis Jenkins
“Some people can make anything out of anything else.”
—from "Birthday Girl: 1950" by Linda McCarriston
“There is no one I am put out with or put out by.”
—from "Away" by Robert Frost
“And then my heart with pleasure fills, and dances with the daffodils.”
—from "I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud" by William Wordsworth
“Are you contagious? Will we have to wait long? Is the runway icy?”
—from "Afraid So" by Jeanne Marie Beaumont
“Time is always ahead of us, running down the beach.”
—from "In the Middle" by Barbara Crooker
“People in this town drink too much coffee. They're jumpy all the time.”
—from "A New Lifestyle" by James Tate
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