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by Sean Penn


  Oh, boy— Oh, boy— Oh, boy—

  That blonde girl is Bob in a wig!

  Spurley sped for cover

  in shield of tendril-rooted teasel

  but Bob wields his wild mallet

  POPPITY POP!! . . . will drop the weasel.

  Spurley concusses like a canvas

  its skin splayed from its easel

  drops a load in his dewy drawers

  spreading a sewery stench of diesel.

  No humanity of hows

  nor witness to whys

  He coughs up his gas bloating guts

  bends over desk

  and dies.

  Cascades of curdling blood

  pour past Annie’s eyes.

  Though she now screams in horror,

  so finally complicit is she,

  Sounds a bit like us, don’t it?

  In love and killing . . .

  completely complicit

  are we!

  And Bob Honey?

  A being.

  Unbranded,

  unbridled,

  and free.

  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  The author wishes to thank his children for their challenging brains, wit, and sometimes biting wisdom. His comrades in the daily grind of getting printed words to page, Joseph Sacks and Sato Masuzawa. David Blum for his excellent early guidance and Audible advisement. Brilliant Bob Kerstetter for kicking in fifty of this book’s best words. Mollie Glick for navigating new waters in publishing, and my many friends whose diversified array of professional experience and expertise has rubbed off just enough to let Pappy play at profundity with the proverbs of their professions and nobility of their nomenclature. Finally, to Peter Borland, my first and best written word editor, for showing me such a smart and supportive process, and never balking at the bizarre. Without the above, this novel would not be. —s.p.

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Sean Penn won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performances in Mystic River and Milk, and received Academy Award nominations as Best Actor for Dead Man Walking, Sweet and Lowdown, and I Am Sam. He has worked as an actor, writer, producer, and director on more than one hundred theater and film productions. His journalism has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, The Nation, and The Huffington Post. This is his first novel.

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  CREDITS AND PERMISSIONS

  “Love Me, I’m A Liberal”

  Lyrics and Music by Phil Ochs

  Copyright © 1965, Renewed 1993, Almo Music Corporation on behalf of Barricade Music, Inc.

  Used by Permission. All Rights Reserved.

  “I Kill Therefore I Am”

  Lyrics and Music by Phil Ochs

  Copyright © 1971, Almo Music Corporation on behalf of Barricade Music, Inc.

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  “When I’m Gone”

  Lyrics and Music by Phil Ochs

  Copyright © 1963, Renewed 1991, Almo Music Corporation on behalf of Barricade Music, Inc.

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  “Pretty Smart On My Part”

  Lyrics and Music by Phil Ochs

  Copyright © 1971, Renewed 1999, Almo Music Corporation on behalf of Barricade Music, Inc.

  Used by Permission. All Rights Reserved.

  “Chords Of Fame”

  Lyrics and Music by Phil Ochs

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  “War Is Over”

  Lyrics and Music by Phil Ochs

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  Jacket design by June Park/Rodrigo Corral Studio

  Author photograph by Pappy Pariah

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Names: Penn, Sean, 1960– author.

  Title: Bob Honey who just do stuff : a novel / Sean Penn.

  Description: New York : Atria Books, 2018.

  Identifiers: LCCN 2017060020 (print) | LCCN 2018002029 (ebook) |

   ISBN 9781501189067 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501189043 (hardback)

  Subjects: | BISAC: FICTION / Literary. | FICTION / Satire.

  Classification: LCC PS3616.E5555 (ebook) | LCC PS3616.E5555 B63 2018 (print)

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  ISBN 978-1-5011-8904-3

  ISBN 978-1-5011-8906-7 (ebook)

 

 

 


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