Category Archives: 30-30

Dear Bobby, I was shamed into reading your last book because your latest has just come out. It has rested on my desk since you signed it for me on the last book tour three years ago. You wrote: “Good … Continue reading →

ALL APOLOGIES IX Apologies to Jeannie: I didn’t know better – really. I had no better way to get your attention and still don’t. I was so scared, so ashamed of my body but amazed by yours that all I … Continue reading →

BEARING WITNESS I swore the next time I saw you I would say hello introduce myself not stare at your chest and ask to get to know you better I have spent too long living in the shadow of satisfaction … Continue reading →

SUNDAYS You remember Sundays? At the old apartment? You’d be reading the Times or working on a paper wearing one of my ratty t-shirts with a stupid saying like “Got Cream?” or “I’m not prejudiced; I hate everybody.” You would … Continue reading →

DAMN MONSTERS There are benefits to being a ghoul, a goblin, a monster in the night. I can always find a spot on a train or at the movies. Nobody ever crowds me. When I ask for something however outlandish … Continue reading →

JANINE TO JON ON THAT FIRST NIGHT Oh, that’s sad. All you could come up with was that? That was your finest line? REALLY? Man, you’ve been working this corner staring at me for what seems like forever, and this … Continue reading →

WONDER AND QUEST In the far future, when my fame is a given and my fortunes long ago lost, when the literary detectives seek to uncover each and every inch of evidence of my inspiration, and they look at my … Continue reading →

ODE TO THE PARK When you sit in the park with your book of verse and your cappuccino and your solitude as you look on at the happy loving couples and think how much happier you are you are lying … Continue reading →

AN HONEST PROPOSAL People talk all the time about the right to smoke and the civil liberties involved and the freedom of expression and how the loss of the cigarette is the loss of the soul of America and that … Continue reading →