North End, and: Halfway Into Paradise

18 THE MINNESOTA REVIEW JAMES SCULLY NORTH END Hartford, Connecticut 16 years old, two children, struggling alone Peaches, I tell it cold as I can. That winter's morning you stared out the window into the filthy wind the honey colored slum You said, as though saying nothing 'when I wake up in the morning I don't want to wake up' HALFWAY INTO PARADISE 1 Halfway into Paradise Dante hears the advice he wants to hear: 'Tell the whole truth. No lies. If it stabs them sick, even to tears let diem pick at dieir own scabs: That's what I say I say that. SCULLY 19 Now I hear a pure spirit or wise guy put this burning question to Chou En-lai: Why. Why didn't he push die Revolution to the hilt and finish the job. Chou replied, 'Look here look at my mother She has bound feet. What can she do but hobble around. If I cut them loose, she would fall down.' That's what I say I say that. 3 So torn the gut howls in its pit ...