The novel is about conflict.
Come out in the open, erect, and fully exposed,
or go underground, stay underground, don't expose yourself,
work in the shadows, get by with orts, or leavings, have a junk-shop route
and shop on the reduced-price table with a net bag, like a European hausfrau.
Cook meals with fresh fruits and produce, fish Owen caught in the surf,
and whole-grain breads. Home-made yogurt. Support local culture.
Grits and grunts. Mojo criollo with oranges and key limes off your own tree.
White cornmeal hushpuppies with guava jelly. Or Cuban bread. Mango salsa.
Black beans and yellow rice. Brown rice. Dried beans. Road-kill chili.
Be a smuggler, a sneak, a secret schnorrer. Isaac Bashevis Singer.
A luftmensch. Fill up on pickles and sauerkraut at Wolfie's.
Read Richard Grayson's Eating at Arby's.
A Florida writer.
That's Florida. Miami Beach.
A condominium in Dania.
With Hitler in New York.
I Brake for Delmore Schwartz.