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when i got home i decided to see if i could find anything out about it on the web. it turns out it's a scaled-down replica of the flatiron building in new york (built 1902). maybe by the same architect. i always new i'd seen its shape before - a wedge turned on its side - but i didn't know where. our flatiron building only has 7 stories. there were supposed to be ten, originally, but the city ran out of money for the last three. fort worth gets its name from general william jenkins worth, hero of the mexican-american war and a native new yorker. in 1849, he ordered ten forts to be built on the hill where downtown fort worth now sits. the forts were meant to protect the white settlers from being slaughtered my native americans who were hostile over the systematic invasion of their land. after ordering the forts built, general worth then rode to san antonio where he heroically died of cholera one month later. at some point, william jenkins worth's body was brought back to new york and buried on-in-or-under a small island of land at the intersection of broadway and fifth street at the base of the original new york flatiron building. maybe...one day...a drunken mark thomas will stagger over to that very spot, look down at the grave of william jenkins worth, and urinate on it. |
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the next day the front page of the New York Post read: R.I.PEE I laughed for days. Rest In Pee. the Worth monument in Manhattan is pretty prominent. i've seen it but not for a long time. it is tall. i read somewhere that the Flatiron is the only skyscraper in Manhattan that can be seen in its completeness (from top to bottom) from the street level. other tall buildings are so crowded among other buildings that only an aerial view allows one to see the whole thing. |
I have been to fort worth tx one time, and don;t remember a thing, not even being there. not even when. I wish I were like Droop, and could take a drink or two now and again, but i can't. A drink would be good this afternoon. I would go piss on some graves. |
it was midnight late in fort worth just my bottle, blues, and me i was a-rollin' down a part of town where ghosts are said to be and that was where i met a cowboy in a ghostly apparition i said, "i thought i had the blues, but i 'spose you're in worse condition." that ghost said, "son, if that's what you're thinkin', i've got some news - you see when you leave this world behind, dead men don't get the blues." |