May 31
Learning to Drive Leaving the warehouse and tattooing every viaduct from Broadway to Pulaski Jimmy learned to drive feeling his way with each corner of the 42’ straight body truck whose keys the boss finally handed over on a Saturday morning after a passive protest of hungover no-call no-shows from everybody else following Friday payday. …
Jul 28
In Service The former Marine with a zipper scar curled around his ear like a topographical map charting a river said he once had to explain to a Texas farmer during a 4 AM training exercise that those men dropping from black helicopters in his fields were U.S. Marines but the government was not coming …
Apr 26
A Dream of Joe Peschi and Kenny Eto A bullet handloaded with old gunpowder zipped around Kenny Eto’s head between skin and skull like a tiny Matchbox Trans-am. He walked from the ER with two band-aids, front and back, then testified just like they thought he would even though he wasn’t going to at first. …
Feb 28
Night Science Day science is what they tell us we want and what we should want for maximum productivity and manifested potential and to be certain of all outcomes before we even start to enhance gut biomes, clear brain fog and grow hair exactly where we want it. As if a deck of cards could …
