Dim Sum I know, I know, if Hemingway had savored the chicken feet in sauce at the great NBC dim sum restaurant in Monterey Park,California, he still would have...could have... and say Richard Brautigan, even toward the withered end, had paused for just a single taste of the scallops at the NBC, or ordered the platter with three huge cream-filled dumplings, still he would have, still he could have, I know, I know, but if only John Berryman...Anne Sexton... if Sylvia Plath, Primo Levi... if Kathryn's father, Vince Foster, if Marilyn Monroe....Barry Spacks |