A Good Scour

HOUSEHUSBAND: A CORRESPONDENCE NOVEL
is long-form nonfiction about a Florida writer, a participant-
observer of his own train-wreck of a life, culminating in his appearance
at a writers conference where one person comes out to hear him speak.
A man in a Husqvarna gimme-cap. He is working at a day job that
is running out, like sand through an hourglass. Pork through a goose.
A dose of salts. Tartar emetic. That shit will set you free.
He gives the Mall Builder culture an enema. Enema vérité.
What you see on the end of the fork when you really look.
To see what's on the fork we have to eat with chopsticks.
Please don't throw me in that briar patch, Br'er Fox.
When Emerson asked Thoreau what he was doing in jail,
Thoreau asked Emerson what he was doing out.
On the necessity of vocational disobedience.
Tell New York to shit in their hat.
Go piss up a rope.


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