(P/B) DANGLING IN THE TOURNEFORTIA

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The tournefortia is a large tropical tree, ideally suited to the Southern California climate, that produces small delicate flowers and a kind of fleshy fruit.

"people went into vacant lots and pulled up greens to cook and the men rolled Bull Durham or smoked Wings (10 c. a pack) and the dogs were thin and the cats were thin and the cats learned how to catch mice and rats and the dogs caught and killed the cats (some of the cats), and gophers tore up the earth and people killed them by attaching garden hoses to the exhaust pipes of their cars and sticking the hoses into the gopher holes and when the gophers came out the cats and the dogs and the people were afraid of them, they circled and showed their long thin teeth, then they stopped and shivered and as they did the cats rushed in followed by the dogs, people raised chickens in their back yards and the roosters were weak and the hens were thin and the people ate them if they didn't lay eggs fast enough, and the best time of all was when John Dillinger escaped from jail, and one of the saddest times of all was when the Lady in Red fingered him and he was gunned down coming out of that movie. Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson, Machine Gun Kelly, Ma Barker, Alvin Karpis, we loved them all. and there were always wars starting in China and they never lasted long but the newspapers had big black headlines: WAR IN CHINA! the '30s were a time when people had very little and there was nothing to hide behind, and that Bull Durham tag dangling'from the string coming out of your pocket - that showed you had it, you could roll with one hand - plenty of time to practice and if somebody looked at you wrong or said something you didn't like you cracked him one right in the mouth, it was a glorious non-bullshit time, especially after we got rid of Herbert Hoover." [Charles Bukowski, "the lady in red"]

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the lady in red
the stink
the lisp
silk
on shooting
blue collar solitude
sick
immortals
Independence Day
one for Sherwood Anderson
fight on
I didn't want to
nothing
taking care of the big whammy
the Indian
grace
love and courage
two drunks
bad press
yeah, man?
ladies' man
yrs., Anica
rock
night school
platonic
hello, Barbara
genius
overt population
out of the mainstream
time is made to be wasted
we've got to communicate
the fast life
I am a reasonable man
free coffee
laugh
bad fix
maybe we'll see...
pretty boy
the new woman
we both knew him
killer
I can't stop
fasten your seat belts
culture
the descent of the species
yes
laid up
within my own madness
dead again
hell yes, I'll go...
a little sun
another day
a gallon of gas
black and white roach
you can never tell who you're going to meet...
the weather's been fair
on the hustle
attack and retreat
it's strange
no chance in Pomona
a poetry reading
true confession
pick six
fourteen dollars and thirty-two cents
snap snap
suckerfish
the sniveler
fear and madness
drying out
there are hecklers in Germany too
just another bad affair
the American writer
Sibelius and etc.
the woman from Germany
parked
at Vegas you have to put up two to get one
dummy
virgins
let nothing ever happen
the vampires
produced and bottled by...
retreat
the embracers
the cats too
guava tree
getting my money's worth
guest
war
table for two
let it go
notes upon a hot streak:
do you use a notebook?
smooth
message
they ruin your day
order
my big fling
contemporary literature, one
the film makers
slow night
the secret of my endurance
too late
the poets and the foreman
for the little one
we evolve
the man at the piano
night work