<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=566009" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Names of the Obscure</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mr. Jiggs ran the grocery store in town. He never used<br>his name as an excuse for not being famous. No one ever<br>asked, 'Hey, Jiggs, did you want to be famous? ' It was<br>out of the question. Not so with Johnny, local mischief-artist: <br>A thief by age 15, in the Marines by 18, back home at 24<br>starting fights. He wanted fame and settled for trouble.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Meanwhile, Claude Munkerz became ever more reclusive.<br>With a name like that, what else was he supposed to do? <br>Where were 'his people' from? someone once asked, not<br>looking for an answer. Those who made it inside Claude's<br>shack came back with tales of smells, guns, and incongruously<br>exquisite furniture. Johnny robbed Clyde (guns and cash) , </div><div style="margin:10px 0">left town, never came back or found fame. Jiggs let Munkerz<br>run a tab at the grocery. Claude paid in cash at first, then<br>in barter (walnut table, mahogany chair) , then not at all.<br>He died. So did Jiggs, in Florida, after retirement. On his<br>lap when he had the heart attack lay People magazine-<br>all about famous people.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Hans+Ostrom">Hans Ostrom</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=566009" data-title="Names of the Obscure de Hans Ostrom" data-description="Mr. Jiggs ran the grocery store in town. He never used his name as an excuse for not being famous. No one ever asked, 'Hey, Jiggs, did you want to be famous? ' It was out of the question. Not so with Johnny, local mischief-artist: A thief by age ..."></div> </div> </div>

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