The first things I remember 

Are the Nixon impeachment hearings on the news

A big snowstorm

And being hungry

Crawling around to get my mother another diaper to clean me up

Deciding (quite vehemently) to throw my bottle in the trash because I was tired 

Of 

Being 

A

Baby

And the Felix the cat clock on the bedroom wall

We had a giant space heater with a tin pipe which crawled 

Up the living room wall 

And if you touched the ceramic plates inside,

You’d get burned.

I found ten dollars in the snow that winter, 

And mom and dad were ecstatic, because we were broke and could get groceries then.