The Gullet, pt. 3


“We think Peter Gabriel is right,” Schama admitted.
            If only I wasn’t so sleepy all the time.
            He worked at a grocery store.  A small grocery store in a strange town.  At night.  You could smell the refrigeration units.  Men’s adventure series paperbacks, numbered dubiously into the upper reaches of a lifetime, sometimes it took so long to get the brain working, even in such herky-jerky fashion (and willy-nilly), that it was time to put away the paper just as the first good words came to him.

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