“ I used to go every day. Is it slower than New York? That’s what a few visitors from the Apple tell me. then one did it, becausenothing, but nothing was as bad as being dirt-poor, itchy-skinned, soiled-underwear, scuff-toed, hairyand ashamed lousy with the no-gots. Klenman, I was told, was theanswer to my script problems.
Then she stood in the doorway of the bathroom, drinking the water, staring at the bottle ofchampagne, that bottle of champagne. I get a little work, an ‘also featuring’ once in a while. You knew your lines, always. “ One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty” originally appeared in ORBIT 8 [edited by Damon Knight];copyright © 1970 by Damon Knight.
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