2 Responses to “Factotum”

1. DrFaustroll Says:
   January 2nd, 2006 at 7:09 am

   HA. Lovely…. I’m listening to “Visions of Johanna,” one of the nearly 1600 Felony counts on my hard drive; I’m thinking of the graveyard shift guys I work with … all of them half my age.
   “Jewels & binoculars hang from the head of a mule…”/remember the cover of “Get Your Ya-Ya’s Out?”
   The simple, the Idiot work we do; for a little more money, they could make a machine to fill in for us.
   Bukowski … is our Prince … and these guys don’t even know him.

   Taking me back a quarter-of-a-century: we were in this Philadelphia College of Art ghetto/and I could read Bukowski better than anyone … “Poems sit like gunslingers….” It was actually a bit of a shock when we heard him: “Hostage,” I think it was … he was much more … modest … than we had imagined.
   With the passage of years I’ve come to appreciate that modesty.

   I used to give his books away/I look forward to–if the movie works–to using it to open these guy’s minds to … the potential nobility of our situation.

   Matt “What do the fucking greeks have to do with it” Dillon; We shall see.

   I’ve been able to offer: when they come in with the wicked hangovers: the sauna, which we can’t afford.
   I haven’t yet offered the bit about B-12/one of the many detoxes I went through/shit. They gave me an IM B-12 shot; I felt better IMMEDIATELY.

   So: working for a living in The Land of the Spree, the Home of the Knave.

2. tiny Says:
   January 2nd, 2006 at 8:08 am

   “Nobility” indeed.
   First in line for comment of the year.
   Thanks Doc.
   t

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