view from our roof top patio – foto by smithlady just finished edit 19 of Criminal by Smith & Lady and passed it back to me. the book is sort of a life-long non-fiction On The Road for mutants.
here are the first 60 years of my life reduced to 1 sentence: Born in Bitterroot, raised on Paradise Prairie, farm boy, car thief, Naval Academy, expelled for dope, high society marriage, armed robbery, jail, escaping the cops, illegal loft dweller, ArtCrimes, rat attacks, overdose, celibate, remarried, expat.
and here’s the contents:
ONE
1950 11
Paradise Prairie 13
Bone 19
The Bridge 23
Car Thief 27
High School 33
The Misfits and the House of Mavericks 39
Memphis 43
Prep School 49
Naval Academy 53
TWO
Kicked Out 65
Calvert Street 71
Robin 81
Journal Entries 87
Ray 99
Journal Entries 103
My First Armed Robbery 109
Journal Entries 113
My Second Armed Robbery 117
Mind Fuck 121
Prison Journal 127
Charles Street 147
NULVOID 157
Journal Entries 163
THREE
I am Born 183
Michigan 185
Smith, Smith & Jones 191
Another Man’s Wife 197
White Trash High Rise 203
Regional Art Terrorist 207
Wilson 215
Masumi Hayashi 225
Celibacy 219
Violations 225
Smith vs. the Lizard Police 233
Art 237
Poetry 241
Daniel Thompson 249
ArtCrimes 253
Dead Cat 259
FOUR
Running from the Cops 265
Mother Dwarf 269
Serial Suicide 273
There Are No Monsters 279
Wrong Address 285
Freedom 289
Programmer 297
First Freefall 301
Lab Rats 303
Ash to Ash After 313
The Flow 319
The Church of Not Quite So Much Pain & Suffering 323
Cancer 335
Create Your Own Reality 339
Why Not 345
Selected Press 349
Resume 353
now we need to find a literary agent. send out letters of inquiry next week to a batch a literary agents who have access to the main publishing houses and see what happens. it’s too big a book to go small press or second tier.
folk standing in shade – foto by smith |