I had a job as a computer tester.
At RCA/EDP in Palm Beach Gardens.
I was on the second shift. 3:00 p.m. to midnight.
I read the New York Herald-Tribune. In a book about
The New Journalism, Tom Wolfe mentions Terry Southern's
"Twirling at Ole Miss." I remember reading it in Esquire.
I remember Red Dirt Marijuana. I remember Grove Press.
I thought I'd be a writer and now I am one. Who knows what evil lurks
in the hearts of men? The Shadow do. Aiee, The Phantom. Horace Tapscott.
James Clay and Fathead Newman. Big Texas Tenors.
Woodman Hall. American Woodmen of the World.
Colored chapter. Dallas, Texas, circa 1957.
Jack Ruby's nightclub, The Carousel.
Dr. Mary's Monkey. Have you had it in
an olive, the oral polio vaccine? The good news is
you don't have polio. The bad news is you have
simian immunovirus (SIV) and an epidemic of soft-tissue cancers.
Life magazine, the "People" section of Time, People magazine.
Sarah Palin, Rogue Female. The dildo in Naked Lunch was Steely Dan III.
From Yokohama. That's what the jazz show plays now, instead of
Big Texas Tenors. Steely Dan.
Shit used to be blacker and richer.
All satirists are conservative.