Charles Willeford was reading at Miami Book Fair.
I didn’t stay to hear him.
I wanted to get home, to
But I met his publisher, Dennis McMillan. I had sent them both
my books. McMillan said they agreed I was a good writer, but.
But I would never be published by
Off the wall, he said. I took that as a compliment. To be called
off the wall by Charles Willeford. Norman Mailer called me
off the rails. Who wants to be the cow-catcher on a train?
I’d rather be tearing through the bushes, the weeds
hitting my windshield like switches.