James Brown II

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    “When the Revolutionaries ran short of gun wadding the Rev. James Caldwell ... broke open the church doors and seized an armful of Watts’ hymnbooks. The preacher threw them to the soldiers and shouted, “Give ‘em Watts, boys—give ‘em Watts!””
    —For the State of New Jersey, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “Oh you brown bacon machine,
    how sweet you lie,
    gaining a pound and a half a day,
    you rolled-up pair of socks,
    you dog’s nightmare....”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)