Goines On: Notes on random cards

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Thinking about Bob Boldt’s recent memoir, Goines shuddered at the unavoidable comparison: Boldt was drawing his life on a cinema screen; Goines was scribbling notes on cards cut from vendors’ boxes and dropping them along the road or about the house. Whatever drawing of Goines might emerge or be assembled was but a shimmering mirage. Goines understood as little of who he was as he understood of his muse, of whom he had asked:
    Who are you?

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