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| FEB. 2004 |
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| ***BIO*** A. D. Winans is a San Francisco native born poet and graduate of S.F.State College (now University). He editied and published Second ComingMag/Press from 1972-89. He is the author of nearly forty books and chapbooks of poetry and prose, and his work has appeared world-wide. |
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| DINING OUT WHEN I WAS YOUNG |
| by A.D. Winans |
| I didn't like it when my father took me with him for lunch at Compton's Cafeteria on Market and Van Ness in San Francisco It wasn't the food which was Ok but the old folks that I feared The cook was fat and bald and there was no waitress The bus boy was old and not a boy at all and the people who came there to eat were retired people on low incomes with death warrants for eyes dabbing at their turkey chins with crumpled paper napkins looking like pallbearers back from a funeral |