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    Iris on Laundry Day
    Iris on Laundry Day
    Iris on Laundry Day
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    Iris on Laundry Day

    By Frank Trautman

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    As found in the Louisiana Wonderland, this is the story of Iris who is red and rosy and soft everywhere from her hair to her fuzzy slippers to the heart and her sleeve, and Frank, who has a head full of spiders and a broken watch in his inside coat pocket. They live in your town, probably. Perhaps you can find them in that juke joint under the railroad bridge off Eight Street. It's a tale of love and drugs and more drugs amongst the lost twenty-somethings in the lure and blur of life on the Strip.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFrank Trautman
    Release dateDec 28, 2016
    ISBN9781370061563
    Iris on Laundry Day
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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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