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Ferlinghetti Dug Thin Mints

Hobo: …and the cookies from the sky, you know, man? All them cookies from the sky, like fuckin’ meteors!
Tourist girl: Look, Mom, it’s a Beat poet!

–Times Square

  • Posted on April 20, 2006
  • Arts & Letters, Books & Writing, Food, Hobos, Manhattan, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, Times Square, Tourists
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