The Writer's Almanac from Thursday, February 15, 2007 "Chicken Killing" by Mary Mackey, from Breaking the Fever: Poems. Marsh Hawk Press. ORIGINAL TEXT - 2007 ORIGINAL AUDIO - 2007 It's the birthday of cartoonist Matt Groening, born in Portland, Oregon (1954). He decided to move to Los Angeles after college to try to make it as a writer. He lived in a neighborhood full of drug dealers and thieves, and got a job ghostwriting the memoirs of an 88-year-old filmmaker. After that, he worked at a convalescent home, a waste treatment plant, and a graveyard.
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Dads used an axe but I took cover.I was talking to an old townie today about how aweful the smell was when Mom gutted them in the kitchen sink.