Soda tastes best when you’re young, a fact attested to by Eve Babitz in Slow Days, Fast Company. “Chocolate Cokes in high school are better than caviar on a yacht when you’re forty-five,” she wrote. “It’s common knowledge.”
The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
Dwight Garner
A freight train was passing through the tunnel of my head. A flagman in blue overalls waved gloomily from the last car.
Meeting Ezra Pound
Miroslav Holub
Found in: The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem: From Baudelaire to Anne Carson