As all the motels got too expensive the more they went to them and riskier too, J- and T- finally came to sort of a time share arrangement with an old friend of J-‘s, a guy whose latest project was a biography of the minor forties film personality Carol Landis in which he proved that when Rex Harrison wasn’t Professor Higgins or Dr. Doolittling around he was murdering the young blonde starlet and cleverly passing it all off a suicide. To write this book his friend needed to be dressed in exact copies of Landis’ wardrobe for Four Jills and a Jeep (1944) which he sewed himself, as well as her makeup and shoes, which he could only approximate. He had yet to get an agent for the book but was optimistic though he kept his day job at Starbucks, which was when J- and T- used his bedroom. Is everybody crazy, they often wondered, rolling around on the sleeping bag they stashed in the corner to place on top of the often questionable sheets? Or just those people you know well enough?
Bruce Taylor is the author of seven collections of poetry, including Pity the World: Poems Selected and New (Plain View Press 2005) and editor of eight anthologies including Wisconsin Poetry (Wisconsin Academy of Science, Arts & Letters), and, with Patti See, Higher Learning, (Prentice Hall,) 2005.
His poetry and translations have appeared in such places as The Chicago Review, The Exquisite Corpse, The Formalist, Light, Literary Salt, The Nation, Nerve, The New York Quarterly, The Northwest Review, and Poetry, His fiction has appeared in such places as Carve Magazine, Unlikely Stories, Slow Trains, The Vestal Review, The Paumanok Review and E2ink-1: the Best of the Online Journals 2002