by | May 11, 2011 · 3:47 pm
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Sometimes I feel like Charlie Brown by Guy Yasko

— Strike three!

Some you win, some you lose. Only these days it’s more like “You
lose.” Period.

— How much?
— Eight for the beers and fifty for the bet.

I slide three twenties across the bar.

— See you tomorrow, Chuck.
— Don’t think so, Bill.
— Oh, you know you’ll be here.
— Fuck you, Bill.
— See you tomorrow.

I hate myself.

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10 responses to “Sometimes I feel like Charlie Brown by Guy Yasko”

  1. susan tepper
    May 13, 2011 at 12:09 pm

    Love this. Very jaunty and alive!

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  2. susan
    May 13, 2011 at 12:32 pm

    Love the best of intentions hitting the wall of experience.

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  3. len kuntz
    May 13, 2011 at 6:38 pm

    poor charlie. but i feel the same way sometimes.

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  4. stephen
    May 14, 2011 at 10:17 am

    nice. i like this little time-slice.

    i enjoyed taking the title entirely literally and imagining a 50 year old charlie brown losing bets in bars.

    well played.

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    • guy
      May 14, 2011 at 8:22 pm

      Good grief!

      Comrade, i think i was at least partially inspired by your use of Speed Racer last week. Thanks!

      Susan T., yeah, that’s what i like about it, too: the rhythm of their exchange.

      Susan, Len thanks for reading & commenting.

      Reply
  5. Matt Potter
    May 16, 2011 at 7:20 am

    Ha ha … God, this is so like life, trying to make things interesting and not being able to help ourselves, always choosing the same thing on the menu because it’s easier …

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  6. guy
    May 19, 2011 at 9:55 pm

    Thanks, Matt. I think it is like that, that sense of gravity that pulls us into the same damn thing.

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  7. Michelle
    May 24, 2011 at 12:47 am

    Wow. I read this a couple weeks back, now I am coming to it again. You pack a punch with this one, Guy. It’s not so much melancholy — something you do so well in your writing — as… alarmingly matter-of-fact. There’s a resignation here that hurts. A pattern that cannot be escaped. It’s funny but also, well, hard. I like that a lot.

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  8. ganymeder
    May 24, 2011 at 1:44 pm

    Wow, that seems exactly how poor Ol’ Chuck would turn out as an adult; doesn’t it? *sniff* Excellent writing, but now I’m sad. :(

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