on a not quite rainy san diego afternoon the ingestion of drugs evaporates shades of pretense and I see a world populated with pretenders and I wonder . . . who writes this script? every line thick with the profound as well as the absurd with splashes of sarcasm all at once I seek truths […]
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Cast Yale Lawfirm, one of the ten leading New York doctors Bruce, a Gordon setter Mrs. Lawfirm, Baby Lawfirm, Baby Lawfirm, friends to Bruce Stanley Dubie, a spackle and grout man One Messenger Another Messenger Kate Smith, once one or another’s mistress Chorus, people waiting for a bus Act One Scene One The set suggests
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If I had known I would’ve told you I’d been there too that it’s normal for people like us. That the fog will eventually burn off with time, fiction, and whiskey. We would’ve remembered Hemingway Van Gogh, Plath, and Wallace who fought the fine fight for the arts and died nobly— which would’ve been the
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As a child, I spent most of my summer breaks with my grandparents in Daisy, Arkansas. They owned and tended to a large farm there. I can remember seeing them both work so hard. But they enjoyed every minute of the modest and fulfilling life they had created in the southwest corner of rural Arkansas.
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Fingers ache from pin prick sticks, patterns revealed. Food into mouth, insulin into stomach makes the poison fade. Every day this balancing act continues: test, eat, dose. Medications and carbohydrates — fate’s a mischievous mistress. Food into mouth, insulin into stomach makes the poison fade. People speak of getting high like it’s a game without
