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19 Jan 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Ocean beach San Diego circa 1980. In the first days of the new decade Kim and I packed up and drove the Barracuda to San Diego, which to our surprise made the trip without a hitch. I had a friend there from the dorm years, Doug, with an apartment...
18 Jan 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Party time About this time my father contacted me for a Thanksgiving dinner in Marin, where I’d meet my future stepmother and a business partner of his, Larry K. At dinner, this man offered me a job in San Diego where he owned a small robotics com...
17 Jan 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
My first vehicle After three or four weeks there, things being a little bit crowded, I took Dennis up on his offer and moved back to Berkeley. It was at this time that I purchased my first car, Norma’s very beat up 67 Barracuda for three hundred d...
16 Jan 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Learning to ride. As Bones and May were rather remote to me and the world during these months I knew my stay there was coming to an end. But I did nothing, leaving it to fate and sure enough, fate in the form of Dennis, (once again) stepped in. He...
15 Jan 2023 5 minute read 1 comment Diomedes
Serious writing. About this time, with my first attempts at keeping a journal, other poems cropped up, like mushrooms appearing overnight on a lawn.The poem to Amaris is simple but written in a few minutes, complete. In the same, quick way I came...
15 Jan 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Fairfax Marin population about three thousand circa 1979. Back to California by bus again, and at Bones’ invitation, to an apartment where he was living with May in Marin, the small town of Fairfax, not far from Norma and Kim and her young daughte...
14 Jan 2023 10 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
I was twenty four and it was springtime. The important thing is the ‘kiss’, the one meaningful reward that befell me, the one memory that makes this brief episode worth recording, the one poetic splash of color in a gray world, and the unforgettab...
13 Jan 2023 7 minute read 2 comments Diomedes
The NCR I'm republishing some of my former pieces from two years ago, (with additions and emendations) because when I first started posting on this site, I had no idea that a thirty minute read would instantly put off most would be viewers. Now I'...
12 Jan 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Something like Christina. It wasn’t quite as crazy an idea as it seems. When I was in my Latin intensive workshop four years earlier one of my classmates, Ted, had told me of a program they called ‘cryptology’. He’d taken it himself in the beaut...
11 Jan 2023 2 minute read 2 comments Diomedes
Death trap Back to February of 1978, still a youth and foolish, but with Classical excerpts constantly flooding my mind, providing illustrations and highlights to every step I took. “Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in seQuam quod ridiculos hom...
