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Letter From Montreal: Parc Lafontaine Times Two

Melissa Bull June 20, 2011 I said, This is the fucking Bukowski Lawn-Bowling League.

Parc Lafontaine

Illustration by Pascal Girard.

—One—

Jean said ever since his book was published, women kept assuming he wanted to give it to them up the ass. You know what they say, I said, about making an ass out of you and me. But he wasn’t listening. He said he’d pick up whatever girl at whatever foosball bar on Mont-Royal and get her back to his place—you know, slam the door with your hip, ma belle, and mind the recycle bins in the hall. Then there’d be some Scotch and some sofa and some clothes off and …

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Tenth Anniversary: Spring

ISSUE 43 Tenth Anniversary: Spring 2012

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