bitten tongue. - “Look At The Birdie”

There is a pool of blood in my mouth from a bitten tongue.

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“Look At The Birdie”

I was sitting in a bar one night, talking rather loudly about a person I hated — and a man with a beard sat down beside me, and he said amiably, “Why don’t you have him killed?”

“I’ve thought of it,” I said. “Don’t think I haven’t.”

So begins a never-before-published short story by Kurt Vonnegut in yesterday’s LA Times. While the plot feels a bit Philip K. Dick, the playfulness of the language and the characters remain firmly Vonnegut.

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