Notes of a Dirty Old Man (1973)
Story (1973)
Excerpt
Notes of a Dirty Old Man
My girlfriend had suggested that I leave her house, a very large house, nice and comfortable, a backyard a block long filled with bamboo and leaking pipes and frogs and crickets and cats, but anyway, I was out, as one gets out in such situations - with honor, courage, and wonderment - I placed an ad in one of the underground papers: Writer: needs place where the sound of a typewriter is accepted as much as the wearisome laugh track blare of an I LOVE LUCY program. $100 a month o.k. Privacy a must. I am a professional writer...
Appears in Magazines
- NOLA Express - no. 141, October 19-November 1 1973, pg. 7