Category: Vagabond writer
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Downtown L.A. 1984
When you get kicked out of the Rainbow Hotel you know you’ve hit bottom. Guido and his canvas suitcase went to the library at the end of Hope Street. He sat down with a book. A woman sitting across the table said, You look beat.
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39,000 feet
Lost manuscript by vagabond writer found. He was lost. He took planes all over America. He became an expert on airports. He invested such large sums in airline travel he figured he must own a piece of the sky, or rather pieces of the sky — thin, high corridors of illusion between real cities; timeless…
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Saved by a Motown Girl
He phoned a former girlfriend in Detroit and said he was down on his luck. She had a big heart. Get your ass here. The Greyhound rocked west.
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Python of pure sex
He had no money and no credit but he had girlfriends, and when he was cleaned up he phoned one of them collect in Los Angeles.
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On the bum at Topanga Beach
We bathed in the Pacific Ocean. We bummed money for food from rich people coming out of George’s Market. Movie stars used to stop there on their way home to Malibu.
Mary Saves the Day 