A middle-aged man sitting in a cubicle. 2019. ******** It's one of those days at work where I'm absolutely paralyzed. Hogtied. Brainfreeze. I can't do anything. So what do I do? I go to Google Street View. I take a drive in my childhood neighborhood in Jackson, Mississippi. Take a look at the old house. … Continue reading MONOLOGUE #8: Manhattan Academy
A 40-year man in a Blue Oyster Cult t-shirt. He sits on the back of an old Mustang. Smoking a cigarette. A street light buzzes overhead. Jackson, Mississippi, 2010. ******** I was miserable. Living with my cousin in a cheap-ass apartment complex. Just living there in that shitty dump, I felt like I had hit … Continue reading MONOLOGUE #7: Cedarstone
A 60-year old man is sitting in a lawn chair. He is whittling a yard-long, cylindrical stick with a pocket knife. This is Memphis, TN in 2005. ******** A few years ago before Cathy dumped me, I was down in a swamp in Mississippi. I popped this squirrel out on a long branch, and it … Continue reading Monologue #6: The Voodoo Stick
From a hotel room on Royal Street in the French Quarter. A middle-aged man is stretched out on a king-sized bed in a hotel room. He is sipping from a plastic cup. It is 2017. ******** I’m back in my beloved Hotel Monteleone. I fly back to Brooklyn in the morning. Instead of strolling over … Continue reading MONOLOGUE #1: Down and Out in the Monteleone
