Taking It on the Lam by Edward Drobinski - HTML preview
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Winnie and “Fresh Air” by Dino Valenti, Jesse Farrow, and Chester William Powers, Jr; property of the author, the latter under both the “fair use” and “transformative” doctrines.
Perhaps as a result of her unbridled optimism, she proved not to be reliable at keeping a secret; as she didn’t foresee consequences, and with the help of her sniffing white rabbits, she could find the needle in the woodpile.
She had picked lucky me and we were living together in a place I was paying for with my Post Office scratch. Fearing that if I told her the truth about my occupation her sweet nature would be repulsed, I told her that I was a farm produce salesman to explain my dough and periodic absences. The secret nature and folk popularity of my real job got to me one day after I had a couple of drinks and she was perusing the daily, and gushing over the latest exploit of the “USPS Liberation Army.”
I told her that I was one of them. That’s always an unforgivable rookie miscounting of the trumps mistake made by an insecure,
Taking It on the Lam