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Sketches for characters who although locked away in the prison past appeared to be real people at the time Con/Jur/d, 4/25/2022 Immediately, I'm confronted by too many choices, so and so did this and then I did that in response (You’ve already done that) Right, a shock, do it differently I didn’t like alcohol, a common refrain among those who later self classify as alcoholics I thought it was a waste until I noted it leveraged cocaine and appeared to be useful for my friend’s nightterrors -- being new to serious writing, and wanting to be good, when the English Major’s English Majors the older set, who having tasted success and discovering those lonely hours, of page after page word after word sentence after sentence stories compounded could be leveraged, for partners for power, for a sense of personhood I took them at their words when they said “You’re not bad, reduce the weed and drink more” I was handed ‘truth,’ a fact far more immutable my instincts I believed were clouded having grown up nerdish, so without further adieu I set about the task of learning to drink seeking mentors among the literary drunks, falling all over themselves, to have a coconspirator, on those nights when between events, the flask filled with stolen whiskey, couldn’t fill the Hollow echoing, both inside and out, those nights when I was unable to separate distant sounds of sirens from the too-loud thump thump of my heart it was nice to see matching tears from someone familiar with this parallel and pagan city.
Much love,
Con/Jur/d, 4/25/2022