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26 Feb 2023 8 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Tracy This next excerpt is definitely ‘X’ rated and racy, because it was Tracy, (I can’t avoid a cheap pun. It shows that some sub-level on my brain is still working), but I include it as a preface to what follows, my overall view of women and bea...
26 Feb 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Before I started dating Dale I never noticed my shabby clothes. They were my workman’s pride. But with her on my arm my eyes were opened all of a sudden and my ragged clothes even made me feel shabby. So I wrote this sonnet on the subject but I n...
25 Feb 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
I called Rex the next morning and secured the job. It was a dream job that lasted two months. We built a second story on the house he and his wife and their baby lived in. He taught me carpentry. He only paid me eight dollars an hour, (same as Rob...
24 Feb 2023 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
My life again entered what I would call an idyllic phase over the next year. I would move two times in that period, but each was into a new and stimulating scene. The poker games and table followed me in each of these transitions, so that didn’t c...
23 Feb 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Kips Preeminent too was her voice, so feminine I could not imagine one more so, often soft, but even when harsh and angered still beautiful, not loud, feminine with sighs of exasperation. The voice too reflects the soul, and I have noticed in many...
22 Feb 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Now I enter the final stage of our union, or rather ‘dissolution’. “August 13th Sat. 6:30 A.M. Up all night after another coke party at Brigitte and Ed’s. (just Dale and I were there. They were out of town and lent us the house again). Now it’s ov...
21 Feb 2023 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
I wish the record of those past days were longer. It’s such a priceless treasure, and amazing in some of its details, like Steve pounding his fist on the dashboard as he drove me home, after the best twenty-four hour long party either of us had ev...
21 Feb 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
My diary continues: “I wake up with a terrible hangover, 8 a.m., deathly ill. No work. I visit my car, getting a ride from Jim and I decide to keep it. Dinner at ‘La Pena’ again with Dale. We plan a walk but step into her place at 9 p.m. and by ch...
20 Feb 2023 8 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Dale “Next Wednesday, after a hard day of work at a restaurant in San Jose, Bones and I bounce back into the Plough at seven p.m.. Dale is sitting at a table with Maggie and her child (a little girl, four years old) and two men. She comes to the b...
