Notes of a Dirty Old Man (circa 1974)

Story (circa 1974)

Excerpt

Notes of a Dirty Old Man

About this time every night, the little man below me comes home from work and he whistles happily. He can't go into his own apartment and whistle, he has to stand out there in the courtyard and he whistles and all the birds chirp. If there's anything I can't stand, it's the happiness of an idiot, an unfounded happiness. This whole court is full of idiots...

Appears in Books

• Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook - 2008, pg. 141

Appears in Magazines

• Los Angeles Free Press - no. 501, February 22 1974, pg. A