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Pool Parties and Big Boobs

A story from your friendly neighborhood cab driver — It was mid-day and hot as usual in Tucson, the sun hanging there like an angry fundamentalist. Five sorority girls left their dorm building and walked down the smoldering sidewalk in flip-flops and pastel dresses: Gadabout bimbos with low-swung hips and lazy postures ambling along as if it was an…

Boobs

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Pool Parties and Big Boobs
Pool Parties and Big Boobs
Boobs

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Charles Bukowski

King of the bums — A lot of writers bash Bukowski. It’s almost a sport, a very easy sport. Like kickball. No, Bukowski is not the pinnacle. Yes, Bukowski-worship is annoying. Worship of any author is annoying. But why is it ok to worship someone like Billy Collins or Sharon Olds? “But, but, but those…

Bukowski

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Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski
Bukowski

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Jul 27

The Ablutions of a Swami

I was the new janitor at Pima Community College in Tucson. I worked during the daytime which was much easier than the night crew. One morning I was in the east wing of the English building. I stopped in front of office CC126. Taped to the door was a newspaper…

Academia

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The Ablutions of a Swami
The Ablutions of a Swami
Academia

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Jul 2

Robert Pinsky’s Shirt

When a writer is emotionally uninvolved with his subject matter, I call that “distance”. The stretching of emotional distance de-emphasizes original motivation and emphasizes craft. This is considered by many to be the sign of a master. What the master lacks in emotional intensity he patches up with odds and…

Shirts

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Robert Pinsky’s Shirt
Robert Pinsky’s Shirt
Shirts

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Jun 30

Therapy

an excerpt from the Bacanora Notebooks — I dreamed I was washing my hands and the skin started coming off my fingers until my finger-bones were exposed. I cried for my mother, who was in another room in the house. I thought, please don’t let this be real. My mother heard me crying in the hallway where…

Therapy

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Therapy
Therapy
Therapy

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Jun 24

Confessions of a Joe Rogan Fanboy

Hi, I’m Mike. It has been 64 days since my last Joe Rogan. I’m standing here before you today, because I know you, I know where you’ve been, and I can say that there is hope. I can see it in your faces: you’re thinking, this guy doesn’t know shit…

Satire

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Confessions of a Joe Rogan Fanboy
Confessions of a Joe Rogan Fanboy
Satire

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Jun 22

Cab Driver Dreams of Becoming a Writer

I get out of the cab and step into the oven of a normal Arizona summer day. I can’t find her, I can’t find her. My passenger is supposed to be at the “hypnotism clinic” at 5499 N. La Cholla. …

Trump

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Cab Driver Dreams of Becoming a Writer
Cab Driver Dreams of Becoming a Writer
Trump

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Jun 18

God Didn’t Get Me No Meth

Me and Little John were sitting at the Greyhound bus station behind the wheels of our taxi cabs. We were toward the end of the cab queue. It was a depressing place to be, number 9 or 10 in the bus station cab queue, at 4 in the afternoon, in…

God

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God Didn’t Get Me No Meth
God Didn’t Get Me No Meth
God

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Jun 16

Driving Big Sassy

Sonja is a big black lady, a sweetheart. Her body’s falling apart at age 43: knees, back, innards. She can’t drive anymore. She took my cab to work last week and she asked me if I would be her regular driver. She’s a caregiver for an 80-year-old lady down on…

Death

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Driving Big Sassy
Driving Big Sassy
Death

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Jun 11

A Pair to Draw to

My first fare of a new day — It’s too early for this shit. The sun is an ember under a bear rug, and I’m full of vinegar. I pull my cab up to the trailer park to find the gates are locked. I call my fare, which is scheduled for a 4:30 AM pickup. I know the…

Gambling

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A Pair to Draw to
A Pair to Draw to
Gambling

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Mather Schneider

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