My body is getting what it needs so it has no need to scream out at me to feed it as if I were starving.
We hung out drinking beer for a few hours before I kind of got the idea: This was gross work, but I guess if I was starving to death I would have had just as few qualms about doing it as the professional farmers next to me did.
A stanza that Edna wrote after Cora's death, in 1931, captures it from the child's: In this mound, and what's beneath, Is my cure, if cure there be; I must starve, or eat your death Till it nourish me.
It raises questions about identity — am I truly an artist if I am not starving?
It raises questions about identity am I truly an artist if I am not starving?
If I were a starving student, I might have said yes to some offers, but I can afford to pick and choose".
"If I was a starving musician, I probably would have joined the Rolling Stones — or Spirit or David Bowie or Blood, Sweat and Tears or whoever — but I didn't want to be a sideman," he said.
We climbed the stairs and pushed out into the night air, nodding at the two men, who didn't acknowledge us, and I sucked in great breaths as if I had been starving for it.
I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good.
