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  November 2021     3 months ago

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We’d sit on the porch of the tenement watching police cars whisking by and ask questions, then go wander to the food bank and the thrift store hoping to score a dollar shirt. She asked when’d things would get better. I asked the same question.

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Things remained in a type of stasis for the next couple of days, but I was bored. I wished I had a favorite Bukowski with me to read, either Women or Notes of a Dirty Old Man, which he’d been cool enough to sign for me once when I’d been over at his pad in San Pedro. I missed him. Still couldn’t believe he was gone.

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When I turned 15, my father let me drive our old ’66 Chevy Impala and I was finally able to get a “real” job – at a fast-food restaurant. Where else at that age? I never stopped working. For most of my life, I worked a good 15-20 hours a day, for years, and I made the mistake of thinking I was damn near invincible, only to eventually find out I wasn’t.

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That's why angels prefer to come here on faint ancient nights when the moon is at half-strength and the cats howl their hunger. The venom plaguing us seems miles away.

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You could see it in her eyes – pain made them very deep. Everything about her reeked of death – that gorgeous skin, haunted eyes, porcelain breasts – death masking a soul just marking time. People wanted to get into her. She just wanted a grave. Some wishes eventually get fulfilled.

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