Tag: Guido Michelini
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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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Guido Michelini — an update
Guido Michelini came to these shores and sated himself with a hundred whores. A good reporter but a total flake he left job after job in a wild wake. But he kept on writing this one novel ending up in a horrible hovel. Unkempt and shabby he let himself go the death of his wife a…
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Long Red Fingernails
The sirens stop below my window. What’s this? Is the hotel on fire? I’m too stoned to move. Barbara, where are you?
Mary Saves the Day 