Meretricious
Just another gargoyle that took up temporary residence in Danny Boy’s dreams and went away. Some people say insomnia is a disorder.
Felt foolish and wondered if I had entered that self-deluded stage in an aging man’s life when others have to protect him from knowledge
You pull on dat ’gator’s tail, he gonna clean your kneecaps, him.
We are the sum total of what we have done and where we have been, and I sincerely believe that in many ways the world in which I grew up was better than the one in which we live today.
They seemed to have the coloration and texture of the rubber in a pencil eraser. They
Pretty damn boring to be a spectator in your own life.
No matter what the other side does to you, you grin and walk through the cannon smoke. It drives them crazy.
Maggie’s face darkened, as
I told myself I did not have to live as I once did. I did not have to re-create the violent moments that used to come aborning like a sulfurous match flaring off a thumbnail.
I love you, bwana, but sometimes I think I committed an unpardonable sin in a former life, and you were put here to give me a second chance.
How many major decisions did you actually make?
He knows things don’t happen in order, like past, present, and future.
But perhaps age has taught me that the earth is still new, molten at the core and still forming, that black leaves in the winter forest will crawl with life in the spring, that our story is ongoing an...
Bienvenu, mon raton laveur et votre tee amis, aussi.
As with all megalomaniacs, he had no handles. He was the type of man the Spanish call sin dios, sin verguenza, without God or shame.
Alcoholism is not a disease here but a venerated family heirloom.
According to legend, he had worn elegant clothes and spoken Parisian French and had his land and wealth stolen from him by carpetbaggers after the war.
A wet cigarette butt clung to my cheek like a mashed cockroach. I could smell whiskey and beer in my clothes and Gable’s blood on my knuckles and I swore I could taste whiskey surging out of my stomac...
A man is what he does. Titles are a distraction created to deceive obtuse people.