87.  Writing Sample (from SEASIDE BLOG)

 

      I applied for a summer writing fellowship at the Norman Mailer Center in Provincetown.

      I’ll double-space the next 20 pages of SEASIDE BLOG as a writing sample.

      The application fee is $125 but a ticket for driving without a seat belt is $110.

      Probably a ticket to a Broadway show is $125.  I’ll have to ask Owen and Jean.  They took Ella to see The Lion King for her birthday.

      Food is not provided, nor is transportation to and from Provincetown.

      I can drive my art car.  Sleep in the back.  On the way up and back.

      I’ll look like Youngblood Hawke coming into town from the sticks.

      Looking for Suzanne Pleshette.

      I think the fellowship is for emerging artists.  I am a retreating, or disappearing artist.

      Like Bukowski at the foundation in Tales of Ordinary Madness.

      How long have you been watering that plant?  25 years.

 


 

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