Andrei Codrescu bard essayist, and ...

Andrei Codrescu bard essayist, and editor of Exquisite Corpse, contributed his "Remembrance of My Forgotten Skinniness" to the Spring 1974 issue of Chicago Review. freshly CODRESCU recalled the inspiration for the poem:

I wrote "In Remembrance of My Forgotten Skinniness" at the same first hint of middle-age in my late twenties. Since then I have written single hundred such works at each hint, but this one remains a veritable in memoriam to my enfant terribleness. The canon is that I was skinny as a match my whole adolescence and youth and then in my beer-guzzling