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I called Marcos to get the full story that he’d told me back in the day, how his AP History teacher had been Bob Dylan’s History teacher a couple or thirty years prior. I wanted Marcos to regale me with … Continue reading →

When you wake up take the drugs that give you the special strength to accomplish great things. It may be some time before they take full effect. Gird yourself in your best protection: engineer boots, leather mail and a sturdy … Continue reading →

When we take our clothes off please promise me that you won’t laugh. Tell me that you’ll be kind about what you see and remember that despite the scars and pocks and assorted abnormalities, there was something amongst it all … Continue reading →

You looked really pretty last night, which is, I know, something I should have said last night and not muttered like a Monday morning quarterback with the perfect hindsight and only ultimately an excellent way with words. I should have … Continue reading →

I really wanted to talk to you some more and I really wish I hadn’t left and I’m really sorry I lost the chance to spend more time with you. I regret how I messed things up – really. I … Continue reading →

Occasionally you will add a word to that story you are composing, that thing that you devote yourself to, your nominal reason for being. It will be a good word or an uncertain one that will be replaced back and … Continue reading →

I may not know dick but I do know just a little about him. Dick Shawn, late comedian, is no relation to Wallace Shawn, who starred in the inconceivably big hit My Dinner With Andre. Dick Shawn is also nothing … Continue reading →

I still can’t decide if I did the right thing by cutting class when I realized before entering the room Mrs. Hanratty was subbing in Biology and spun around and on my way. Missus H is awful and incompetent and … Continue reading →

I am absolutely worried about the economy, sure, and the sorry state of the constitution and equal rights – all that kind of stuff – but the real thing that keeps me up at nights is a substantiated fear that … Continue reading →

There’s nothing in the tank. You squandered your resources ignored the warning signs and now, finally, at the last, you’re working off of fumes and you’re getting nowhere. You’re gonna crash any minute, just stop short and any momentum you … Continue reading →