alcoholism
TagUnder the Saturnine Influence on the Trail
A cult got to us, an invented religion hewn from the hunt and from the gape of a country so impressive it seeped into our souls.
Chasing Inside Straights
It’s hard to meet expectations when everyone calls you Brooks’ son, or Brooks’ boy.
Some background to my first parent-teacher interview
I hated bicycles as a boy.
The Outside World
Dustin and I had been trying to watch an episode of Bleach for at least 30 minutes, but the onslaught of bass blasts from the parking lot had proven impossible to ignore.
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his neighbor pulled up
in a new car
boy what a car
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she was white
and fucked up
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the homeless guy on the corner is jaundiced and dying
Shopping for Cigarettes
Sunday seemed to be one those midsummer mornings. A cerulean sky and a collective lament, “I drank too much last night.”
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and I heard
this lawyer say
“oh my god that’s every lawyer’s dream,
to represent someone on death row
who is facing execution by the state”
Buying Beer for Underaged Kids
I meet groups of 16 or 17 year olds a block away from the Circle K and they hand me too many crumpled bills to buy them a case of this or a mix bag of six packs to split when their parents think they’re at a friend’s house.