Essentials of Uncomfortable Living
1. Beat chick dressed in black
2. Coal stove for heating baby’s milk, drying chick’s leotards and displaying crucifix-shaped Mexican cowbells
3. Naked light bulb
4. Hot plate for warming espresso coffee pot and bean cans
5. Marijuana for smoking
6. Posters from old poetry readings and jazz concerts
7. Paperback library of Beat classics
8. Crates which serve as tables and closets
9. Hi-fi loudspeaker
10. Typewriter with half-finished poem
11. Bearded Beat wearing sandals, chinos, and turtle-necked sweater, studying a record by the late saxophonist Charlie Parker
12. Italian wine bottle
13. Empty beer cans
14. Il-tended plant
15. Current jazz favorite of Beats, Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue
16. Guitar
17. Record player
18. Beat poetry leaflet (Kaufman’s Abomunist Manifesto)
19. Bare mattress
20. Bongo drums for accompanying poetry reading (guitar is also used)
21. Cat
22. Beat baby, who has gone to sleep on floor after playing with beer cans

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    Letter from Picasso to Gertrude Stein

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