POPA swore by Verdalia's

writing is like ... peeling an onion

(particularly if you are writing auto-biographically)

{ all 1st time novelists do-read early irving, dickens, hardy}

(frank mccourt "you fekin igit'" or his little brother "a monk swimming")

((write what you know))

tell

your story

later- you will write about you don't know
but you'll research to fill in the blanks...

writing is like peeling an onion

each layer of outer skin removed reveals a bulbous joy

yet

you know what hoppens when you peel an onion... grasshopper

writing on...

(with kleenex as an aid)

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feel free to weigh in....

John Cale - Circus

TIME

clock on the wall is ticking away...

TIME

waits for no one

TIME

things can turn on a dime

TIME

lemon's or lime?

TIME

rhymes...

TIME

pantomime

TIME

TIME

Live in the moment...

PS: TIME

may change me

but

i kant trace

TIME...

herman

is upside down and inside out

he means

"6'' "6" "6"

wonder how that will play

in peoria...

Ps: give the devil his due

"The Cat in the Hat" by Dr. Seuss, the COMPLETE dramatized Reading!

an aside

(i've been thinking...}

if one could go back and relive past moments

to walk again in one's shoes

which moments would one choose?

some might be quite specific

for instance the night mickey hit a walk-off against don mcmahon

and beat the sox-just popa and i sitting down the right-field line.

or

less so

fond memories of fishing

(maybe, impossible to pick one particular expedition)
so capsulated into something like fish or cut bait
but shorter

i am not asking for short stories

{call it- "research"}

anybody game?

send me yours

and i'll send you mine

(confidentiality is expected and required)