As one who spent plenty of time in "the back of the house" in the restaurant trade, this scene resonates for me--albeit under circumstances I've never, thankfully, had to confront.
Well done...so authentic.
TS
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- Terry Simons
- Terry Simons is the founder of Round Bend Press Books and Round Bend Press Detritus. He has worked as a day laborer, dishwasher, factory drone, community organizer, journalist, media consultant and freelance writer. He attended the University of Oregon and Portland State University, where he read journalism, politics, literature and history. He is the author most recently of "Third and a Mile," a fan's notes about the University of Oregon's football travails, 2010--2017. RBP books are available from Amazon and Lulu. Write to: roundbendpress@yahoo.com
Third and a Mile
A College Football Diary
Along Came the Death Squad
Essays
Alt-Everything (Essays on History)
Revised Edition
Nightscape in Empire & The Talent Poems
New Release/Poems
The Children of Vaughn
A Baseball Story
My Other Books
Cello Music & Other Poems
Anthology of Portland Writing
Cold Eye: A Generation of Voices
Four Absurd Plays
Publisher's favorite
Two Stories
Chapbook/Revised
A Marvelous Paranoia
A Memoir
Cold War Poetics
Chapbook/Revised
A Housing Revolt
Litany in a Trumpeter's Bog
The Murderous State
The Law of Revenge
Art for Sale
The Opening
Dedicated to Buddy Dooley
"He was a strange little man with odd habits and an obscure worldview, and instincts that were irreconcilable with the herd."--TS
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