The cat’s eyes have gone cloudy, or maybe it’s just my imagination. She spends most nights in the garage, which would explain the need for a thicker coat. And in the morning she pulls a pipe cleaner out of the basket with the other toys and terrorizes it, dreaming of a bird to kill, chewing on the spine.
January, the Monday of all months, a good time for reckoning, for cod liver oil. It comes lemon-scented or straight and I take it as intended, and it tastes just like I put a fish in my mouth, uncooked.
Richard Brautigan, the poet from the 60s, writes about his time in Japan: fish for breakfast, fish for lunch, fish all day. Fried, pickled, uncooked. Richard, so much of himself on the page: a good place to start, not enough to end.
Bill Pearse 
I read A Confederate General in Big Sur and In Watermelon Sugar as a young girl. Maybe I need to revisit those and check out a few others. I didn’t realize he was such a prolific writer. Something different would be nice about now, in this Monday of all months. Nice!
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He is a kook. I read him and like some of it but all of it inspires me, so I had to try and emulate him. Happy you can relate! And happy new year missy! Bill
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The Confederate General was the only Brautigan I’ve read, I was attracted by the title and the painting on the cover. It was a fun strange read, I hadn’t even known he was a poet, I see he did a gothic spoof, I’ll have to get a copy
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I’d have liked to get drunk with him and feel I just did. Good and bad, kind of predictable, not unique, but entertaining. And would do it again!
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“January is the Monday of months.” I’ve never thought of it that way, but you’re right!
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And you could look at that a couple ways depending on your aspect you know?! Yesterday (with the weather) it felt like a Monday with a capital M.
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Do you know about Brautigan’s Please Plant This Book? Fantastic. A rare and expensive collectable. Eight seed packets with a poem on each packet. The idea was to plant the seeds, which many people did. That’s why a full set is rare and expensive. The edition was about 1,500. None for sale. All given away free.
http://www.brautigan.net/plant.html
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Yes, I had heard about that. This one I’m finishing is The Tokyo-Montana Express. I think I like the goofy openness in his voice the most, the fact a good portion of it seems nonsensical and unapologetically so. I can relate to that maybe. Something about one’s freak flag. He waves his pole there pretty proudly.
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