Archive for June, 1976

The Divine Comedy

Monday, June 14th, 1976

We’ve fallen into a bizarre, comical routine. The crowd knows the routine, and it begins to gather around the perimeter of my property at dawn. They bring chairs and big parasols they can stick into the ground. Don’t these people have jobs? Yesterday I noticed that there were a couple of food vendors pushing carts [...]

A Blind Faith Kind of Thing

Saturday, June 5th, 1976

God hates me. It’s been a week now. I’ve spent a week out in the lettuce field pacing back and forth, waiting for some sign, looking for some inspiration, begging for just a hint. Something. Anything. Nothing. Not a godblessed thing. Suddenly God doesn’t return my prayers. Isn’t that dandy? “The world is going to [...]