I'm in the bathroom of the rebar pissing in a trough the size of a sink. My drink is half empty.

No.

My drink is half full.

I'm incredibly pee shy so I strain to think of other things to get me empty. A basket of flowers, kittens, running through a field of wheat... no,.. riding through a field of wheat on a three wheeler chasing rabbits with my uncle Hallard in Rutherford Tennessee..

Too obscure.

It works.

I piss

Funny.. .someone calls me "Tennessee" behind my back.

H... read more

I spent a year in Chinatown, living in a space that was 6 feet by 10 feet. It fit my bed perfectly when I'd unfold it. In the mornings I'd have to fold it back, otherwise I couldn't open up the front door.

There was no kitchen in my apartment. It was down the hall, but I didn't dare use it as the ancient Chinese couple down the hallway would throw vegetables at me if I was in the same cooking space as they were.

Very protective of their bok-choy I might say.

Mornings were rough in th... read more

I wasn't exactly sure how the night was going to play out. I immediately became supersitious as our friend 'stinky' metioned so casually "whatever you do on the strike of midnight will be what you will be doing for the rest of the year"... I suppose I half believed it because I was raised in a very superstitious Irish Catholic family, and half because it was sort of true. Each new year moment resembled much of the rest of the hundreds of days that followed.

I feared that that the year woul... read more

The grocery store seemed more vibrant as I listened to music blaring through my ears. My hands tightly gripped the shopping cart handlebars as I nonchalantly watched the lemons and oranges blare in their neon glory. Kale and spinach sultrily shined with glistening water as I passed them by. I bagged them all, the fruits, the vegetables, the plain boxes of brown rice... and sat them in my healthy boring assortment wheeled cage of grocery glory.

I watched people pass me by. A bearish man in ... read more

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