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            I use to pretend to be a proof of purchase wardrobe drinx.  A drinx is a greeting card seller who steals the occasional box of Doral cigarettes.  I worked for Cheap John’s bargain store, (as if you thought it was a luxury Cheap Johns for drinxes during more solvent times!)  I would wander around the…

    My daughter and I were on the computer last night.  There is TV show about a family of bears she sort of likes.  There is a story time (madlib) styled that I read to her, asking her which words I should use for the blanks.  She did not care if I used Sunny or Rainy, when those…

Received a slip of paper about Tina Yothers from a certain Gary.  The white thin envelope had a San Francisco post mark.  I know Gary knows my weakness.  The paper was a magazine clipping.  The other side of the clipping was an image I enjoyed focusing on, like an old dental wait-room filmstrip splashed on the wall…

KEANE Have you seen the movie Keane? It really fucked with me… it bows out perfectly I was in that guy’s head… you know…? Keane…… Albany Where the other daddy works at the water purification center Payphone ear wife serves leftovers to our red headed gate watcher Music is never loud enough even with eyes…

Vainly persecuting the Bogomils

  Kathy Lied By: Dom Maltempi 9-8-06 The best summers I remember are like water gun fights when you run out of water Still smiling, maybe till it hurts Bedraggled participants shake and embrace Someone runs the two miles home past a corroded mailbox on a shady street Slimed by a secretion from some hallowed…

Beckett once said that “habit is the ballast that chains the dog to its vomit.”