Category Archives: literature

Le Necrophile

December 11, 2022 – 12:16 am

Back in the late 1960s the biggest house in Quincy, Massachusetts was owned by a funeral director. His daughters were the most beautiful girls on the South Shore in 1967 and they introduced Cream to their admirers. I was one of them. So was an apprentice embalmer for their father. The other suitors joked that […]

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Waiting For Andre

May 2, 2022 – 1:04 pm

Whenever the question arises at a bar about who was the greatest athlete, I allow everyone to offer their opinions. “Jim Thorpe.” He was a multi-talented competitor. “Ali.” Ali was a great fighter. Once the debate has lost steam I say, “Andre the Giant.” They argue that the Frenchman was only a wrestler, but Andre […]

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The Ruins Of The Acropolis

July 23, 2021 – 3:24 pm

The years pile on us like a stack of cards from losing hands at a casino. Strangers ignore my passing and friends failed to recognize me. Ancient as dust I regard my body in elongated shadows at dawn and dusk. A ruin like the Acropolis. Once great, but now shattered, but then I recall the […]

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Francoise Sagan Quote

July 19, 2021 – 8:06 pm

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter. Brilliant.

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Dominoes With A Chicken

November 9, 2020 – 2:21 am

“How, unless you drink as I do, could you hope to understand the beauty of an old Indian woman playing dominoes with a chicken?” ― Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano

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