We talk because we are mortal; words are not signs, they are years. - Octavio Paz
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Beginnings
[prologues & prefaces]
Henry Miller: A Three-Dimensional Perspective
Giblets & Flapdoodle (I)
Teaching
Nocturnal Emissions
[dreams & other midnight narratives]
Laboratory of Night
Diving Into the Deep
Entrapment
The Game of Life
The Violent Intellect
The Snuff-Artist
SnapShots
[characters & caricatures]
Worthless SOB
Marilyn
Double Louie & The Fertile Crescent
Happenings
[vignettes a la mode]
Thirty-Seven Cents
Only on Wednesdays, Please
Three & 1/2 Days In Love
“Astonished Floridian Here on Vacation!”
Randy & the Angel
12 & ½ Hours a Criminal
Sweet, Trusting, Fragile, Headstrong, Fickle
Miscarriages
[aborted narratives]
Proud Flesh
Notice To Creditors
On Turning Forty
Lugubrious Beginnings
Could It Be Otherwise?
Soap Box Heroics
[rantings & ravings]
A Walk on the Wild Side
Fish Swim, Birds Fly, I Write
God & the Quantum
The Way Of The Dinosaur
What’s New?
The Big Four-O
Yesterdays
[memories maudlin & otherwise]
Into The Night Life
The Briar Patch
The Blinker
A True Cock ‘n Bull Story
Six Years in a Concentration Camp
Me & Mary Jo
The Killing Fields
Plato’s Cave
Coup de Grace
A Cold Heart
Progress?
On The Road Again
[northern California, 27 years later]
Then & Now
Pollard Flat
Mount Shasta
Castle Crags
Doggerel
[poems that piddle]
Bukowski a la mode
Bar Poet
Colin At the Guitar
Wine & Cheese
Wily Wiley Wide-Eye
Lies That Tell The Truth
[creative personas, enhanced bio’s]
Scotch & Sin
Not Housebroken
The In-Between Years
The Many Me’s
