Notes of a Dirty Old Man

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Notes of a Dirty Old Man

Sitting with a bottle at the typewriter is not the easiest way to cut through terror. I dreamed a lifetime of being a writer and now the demons are upon me. Writing heightens the feelings to such an extent that we are at the mercy of all happenings. A blade of grass becomes a sword; an affair of love claws the guts out...

Appears in Books

• Absence of the Hero - 2010, pg. 144

Appears in Magazines

• NOLA Express - no. 104, April 14-27 1972, pg. 11