Paint as You Like and Die Happy Henry Miller
the pull-quote hed use to incite
others to read it -- he was always dismallydisappointed when people made faces sneered aligned themselves deigned him separate asif that would be offputting -- he smiled
wide wideWIDER for he wasnt keen on sneers and he wouldntfor a moment wanna be confused
with their ilk
people who didnt shit
he preferred his
literary comradeship with Miller
What is more intriguing than a spot on the
bathroom floor which, as you sit emptying your bowels, assumes a hundred
different forms, figures, shapes?
he regretted that he never had
the opportunity to meet Miller a 7 June
1980 expiration date everyone has one some choose theirs
he didnt find the Tropics until high
school 1970 he assumedmistakenly that Miller
lived in France he was dumbfounded that Miller
returned to a country that preferred killing to fucking
Grove Press legally published Tropic
of Cancer in 1961 where it garnered more than 60 obscenity lawsuits in 21 states
before the U. S. Supreme Court decided it was not in 1964
therefore his window to meet
Miller was small
to be fair to himself a large
majority of that time frankly was filled with sex and drugs and drugs and sex
and making money to afford the drugs
a
fullbore fullsteam ahead effort and blissful time which did not distract or interrupt
his bathroom floor gazing
he was utterly confident that
bathroom floor covering designers were peoplewere women hed enjoy fucking
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