I HAD TO LEARN ENGLISH IF I WANTED TO EAT (AN EXCERPT)

HORROR FICTION

When a man comes to one land from another land,

He pretty much better learn the language, 

If it is different from his own.

I ran headlong into that situation a very long time ago.

And as it turned out...

I Had To Learn English If I Wanted To Eat!

RDL

I HAD TO LEARN ENGLISH IF I WANTED TO EAT  (AN EXCERPT)

(San Francisco, California)

...The first poem I wrote in English was all the way back in... let's see... it was June of 1847.

I was living in San Francisco... I don't remember how I got there... and I needed to learn English.

I slept all day... and I spent the early part of my nights in St. Mary's Mission learning the language.

Afterward, I would hunt down a midnight meal... preying was so easy back then... study a little... write a little... and then gently close my coffin to start all over again the next night....

RDL