Category Archives: youth

LOST FOR GOOD

January 12, 2016 – 2:59 am

My 6th Grade nun once told a young girl mourning the disappearance of her Barbie Doll, “Everything you ever lost will be in heaven waiting for you in a special closet.” These words stalled by apostasy a year, for I hoped for the comforting reunion with my wooden toy boat and one-eyed teddy bear in […]

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ANCIENT PORNO by Peter Nolan Smith

January 6, 2016 – 2:25 pm

The term pornography was derived from the Greeks linking two words; prostitute and I read. The portrayal of sexual acts can be traced to pre-Ice Age and anthropologists have claimed that a naked figurine carved from a mammoth ivory was man’s first attempt at figurative representation. Opponents to this thought have countered that not a […]

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First Line of EL TOPO

November 20, 2015 – 2:05 pm

“Son, you are seven years old. You are man. Bury your first toy and your mother’s picture.” El Topo Life is tough on the young.

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STING LIKE A BEE by Peter Nolan Smith

August 21, 2015 – 4:02 am

This past May a tropical bee flew into our new house in Sri Racha. My wife attacked the flying insect with a broom. My two year-old son Fenway screamed at the buzzing creature. I rolled up yesterday’s Bangkok Post and tracked the invader’s flight. My first swat caught the zigzaging bee and it caromed off […]

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Revolution on CC-TV

April 26, 2015 – 9:21 pm

Late Spring 1974 Bunker Grass and I drove a station wagon from Boston to San Francisco. He flew to San Diego to meet a dancer friend in LA. Male. I said nothing and hitchhiked down PCH 1. The trip took five days. I crashed in Monterrey with gay fisherman. Big Sur with two horny dykes. […]

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