The Life of Saint Randolph

<p class=ql-align-justify>One Good Friday Randy crucified a lizard in the schoolyard with Popsicle sticks and push pins. By age fourteen he was an avowed atheist yet entered a Benedictine monastery until he was expelled for heresy. </p><p class=ql-align-justify>He liked to piss in the Church's baptismal font and tell elaborate lies in the confessional. His father was a petty criminal his mother a hopeless schizophrenic. Randy himself was committed to a mental hospital on several occasions when we were in high school.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>This memoir is a record of our life-long friendship compiled from dusty old memories letters and photographs. </p><p class=ql-align-justify>While I pursued a career in writing and teaching Randy achieved world-wide fame as an insect physiologist and author of several definitive works on the lives of bees and wasps. </p><p class=ql-align-justify>-David Ohle 2024</p><p></p>