If your dreams haven’t come true by the end of this period, you had better make new plans. Where did I get all that energy? Vicenarians never get out of breath, and if you’re going to do nude art class modeling, the vicenarian era would be the best era.
Wow! I lose my breath just thinking about that. Somewhere in there I met a nice girl from Maine, moved in with the nice girl from Maine (on strict conditional terms because she really was a nice girl from Maine) and eventually married the nice girl from Maine (also on conditional terms) and left New York for Hollywood. I drank Akadama wine in Japan, got out of the Air Force, studied painting at the Art Students League of New York, did some nude modeling there for $5 a class (bet you didn’t know that) and played piano in a gay bar in Vermont. Vicenarian: That’s the period one lives between 20 and 29. The first 10 were rough, the others were better. I was a Boy Scout, altar boy, delivered newspapers, went to high school, briefly went to college in Louisiana, spent summers making plastic feet in a shoe factory, worked as a fireman on a diesel engine on a railroad and joined the U.S. While researching, I got to thinking about all the other ‘narians I survived.ĭenarian: Those between 10 and 19. I don’t want to go into that good night without proof. That’s the first time I ever thought about it. Someone in the produce section this morning asked me how it felt to be an octogenarian.
