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Recruited by the Raven
East-West Crazy is about growing up in the ’60s in a dysfunctional family. Been there, done that? Not with this family, you haven’t. East-West Crazy (excerpt from) A novel by Joey and Mark Jones Mom didn’t object to the Monkees, who were more clean-cut than the Beatles. The Beatles had seemed like such nice “lads,” but now were putting out the kind of records that made grownups nervous. My big sister Daisy listened to songs like “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,” sitting on her sofa in her bare feet. Nobody could make her stop, because she had her own apartment, which she called a “pad.” I referred to it as the “Daisypad,” wishing my sister’s name were Lilly, which would make the joke better. Hey, it would have been a great joke coming from an eight-year-old. Everybody knew “Lucy in the Sky” was about drugs. I had only a vague notion what that meant, gleaned from listening to what adults said when they thought kids weren’t listening, and t.v. news. Hippies were druggies who did drugs and were dirty and didn’t work, and shouted a lot while waving poorly-lettered signs, like the girl on the news last night with…
Really Almost True Story (RATS)
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Dogface
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Being A Fine Donkey
Maybe it’s enough to be a fine donkey.
January 28, 2021
Maybe it’s enough to be a fine donkey.
