Bits and Pieces: A Roaming

By Edward Pomerantz

“Bits and pieces / scraps / what’s left on the barber shop floor / after a haircut / before the barber sweeps up”

In this unsentimental poetic memoir, award-winning screenwriter Edward Pomerantz captures significant moments of his life exactly between “before” and “after.” With the precise eye of a filmmaker, the soul of a playwright, he knows exactly how many frames to cut in order to evoke poignant images that are sharp and tender.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ben Yehuda Press
• Release date: Jan 5, 2024
• ISBN: 9781963475036

Edward Pomerantz

EDWARD POMERANTZ has written over 35 commissioned screenplays and teleplays, and is the recipient of two Writers Guild Awards. He wrote the movie CAUGHT, based on his novel INTO IT, released by Sony Pictures Classics and nominated for three Independent Spirit Awards. His play/feast BRISBURIAL was produced by Woodie King, Jr.’s New Federal Theatre and published by Magic Circle Press.

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BITS AND PIECES

A Roaming

by

EDWARD POMERANTZ

BenYehuda Press

Teaneck, New Jersey

Bits and Pieces

©2023 Edward Pomerantz. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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1

I am my father’s son.

Same dome. Same cock.

His hands—boning a shad,

removing its thousands of bones with knife and tweezer.

Mine—working with words,

telling a story,

removing the fat.

2

A movie with a stage show.

You take the downtown A.

A ride like no other.

Where you get to see colored people

at the two stops they get on at.

Where after 125th you get a thrill speeding up,

all the stops flashing by,

all