Drift Fishing
I saw Knife in the Water
at an art theater in
in 1965. Think of the
theater in The Last
Picture Show. Frederick Exley was writing
Pages from a
I watched pro football with my brother Bill.
We fished for mahi mahi. Schooly dolphin.
I think it cost $15 to go out on a drift boat
if you brought your own tackle. Bait was free.
I think of the Florida Girl out of Destin.
The idea of
Anne Rowe. The idea of drift fishing. IBM made a small,
desktop computer I called Big Red, the Snapping Pussy of Doom.
Vagina dentata. All she got was a red snapper.
Snail operculum earrings in the court of Louis Seize.
Tiny bombs the size of pearls. Pry them out, like BBs.
Oil clean-up nearly finished, draw down workers.
No enema for you, you naughty boy.
Enema vérité. What you see
on the end of the fork when
you really look. Compare Naked Lunch.
Compare Last Exit to
Compare City of
I would compare Generation
of Strainers:
A Life on Paper to
Naked Lunch, Last Exit
to