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    Shipwrecks in the Harbor
    Shipwrecks in the Harbor
    Shipwrecks in the Harbor
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    Shipwrecks in the Harbor

    By Frank Trautman

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    Revenge is a dish best served table d'hôte...
    But they never put out enough snow crab legs and the succotash is lukewarm, and the bowls are not big enough for the soft serve or a decent salad. And the "house dressing" is labeled simply "house dressing" on the ladle, but its a congealed viscous mystery yellow. And there is a loose crouton stuck to the brisket. There's plenty of beets. The meatloaf's a bit dry but tastey nonetheless, slathered in a crusty tomato paste. Its so much better than gnawing the cold chicken legs for a scrap of meat. The cookies are hard, some oatmeal, some choco-chip, I dare you to guess which is which, have a white frosted cupcake instead and remember kindergarten birthdays as the diabetic coma ensues.
    Glypicide, you lifesaver.
    Mashed potato, mashed potato, mashed potato.
    Fried okra, greens and mac and cheese.
    But the sneeze guard works, I just tried it.
    Also the best revenge is to live well. As is, tired and alone down at the crossroads in Anytown, USA, cut brake lines are also not beyond the pale.
    You’re on the road seeing the odd parts of America and its buffets. But there's still new weepy crap every day.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFrank Trautman
    Release dateFeb 14, 2017
    ISBN9781370052868
    Shipwrecks in the Harbor
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    Frank Trautman

    Francis Jupiter Trautman lives as you do. In a shack out in Plaquemine’s Bayou drinking Old Crow and burying cigar boxes full of children’s teeth at the roots of an old dead oak. Mind the flies. But nights, he flies. He sails up above the swamps adrift on wings of whiskey and of soda. That’s him, now. Perched on the hood of a silver 1975 Buick Apollo. Clinking his size-13 Frye’s against the headlamps with small delight and sucking a Marlboro, as he watches you sleep. Or not. Whatever.

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