I seen it hop, hop. I breath 1,2,3 Buteyko1 breathes and wait another second. I pull the trigger. My cat takes off to get it.
Go ge’ the bunnyrabbit
The bunny-rabbit isn’t moving. Good girl. You Go. You go an ge-im
She tears it up, brings it to me and places it by my side. Good, good.
She puts her paw on me. We see one more is trotting through the grass. It was maybe 15 yards away. I shot pretty well. Possibly headshot. My cat, she tears it up.
She brings it to me. She’s purring loud.
I add it to our pile. She purrs louder each time we up’d 1 on the score.
This ended when Vincent’s muffler scared the bunny-rabbits out of the yard.
Vincent Pulled up in his Dodge Neon. The exhaust-pipe sounded like a boat, no offense cuz. You scared my cat away. We were enjoying shooting bunny-rabbits.
I point the BB gun at his windshield and tell him that I’m the Law and to get out of the car with his hands up.
If you shoot me, you’ll regret it
I already regret pointing the rifle-looking toy2 gun at my cousin.
He stepped over the mud and asked, Do you need to smoke a cigarette
He likes Camel Blue but I only have USA Gold cigarettes.
C’mon Tommy. You really smoke those shits
I don’t laugh at his lisp. I have a speech impediment myself. Poor me. Poor Vincent.
I give him a phony grin, Yeah Vincent, Sure I do
At my table, I offer him something to drink. He’s clad in a leather straitjacket. Looks like the one he wore the last time I saw him at Friendly’s but that one had chains hanging off it. Looks like he took the chains off. Vincent’s face is a white white. Powdery white not angelic white. White and red with black eye-liner. Like a tortured clown. Like he used a lot of Maybelline3.
We talk with each other in the kitchen. I explain the difference between Toyota and Chevy. I tell him about a Toyota truck I want to buy in East-Falmouth. Vincent tells me about German boots from WWII called Jack boots4.
I want to buy the Toyota then spray-paint it. The black lifte-
Yeah, I’m only interested in buying a pair of the authentic kind. Like the actually real ones. Not a knock off Chinese pair
A pretty waitress served us at Friendly’s last week. Her skirt was prettily high. A white-red smiling face smiling a smile.
With a steak-knife, Vincent crushes an Oxy on my grandma’s nice Native American plate.
I saw you looking, I saw you looking
She went to my high school
These pills were blue last time. This one is white with red sparkles
I look down, O that’s a Vicodin. I’m retarded
The containers in the bathroom cabinet are illegible.
Whatever me too. And I have my autism. He’s proud. I’m proud of him too.
Haha. Well I guess it’s Vicodin. We’re probably going to see a shooting star
Who’s here, He asks. No one. C’mon
We did that. We did more and I fell in the kitchen. Vincent Sings a nordic folk-song to me. He sings one he loves and knows by heart. I’m fine now.
We play Magic the gathering5 together before he needs to walk back to his apartment on Main street. He’s great. Great Vincent. We share another cigarette before he leaves.
I notice him looking at me in a funny way as I smoke our USA Gold cigarette.
Fuck, man. Do I look funny
No. You look fine. It’s just you’re nigger-lipping our cig
What. I looked at the USA Gold.
You’re sucking on the filter and making it wet
I spit near him.
Vincent looks at me kind of sad looking.
Sorry. Here’s the cig. C’mon.
I give him a hug and he’s on his way home.
He got out of DCF care when he was 18. I think he’s 19 or 20. He likes to lie and tell me he’s 27. I’m 26. He wants to be close to me in age so he can be close to me.
He believes his father is my cousin who overdosed in 2019. If my late-2nd-cousin was his father, Vincent and I would be 3rd-cousins. But I like to call him my great-great-cousin Vincent. My cousin died the day Vincent arrived from Florida to meet him. Vincent has stayed in town since.
I remind Vincent he’s my kin. Even if we don’t know for sure. Now when we get together, which is hardly ever, we ruin Literature and we destroy Poetry.
The Buteyko method or Buteyko Breathing Technique is a form of complementary or alternative physical therapy that proposes the use of breathing exercises primarily as a treatment for asthma and other respiratory conditions. The therapy takes its name from Soviet doctor Konstantin Pavlovich Buteyko, who first formulated its principles during the 1950s.
Perhaps the most famous of these is the Red Ryder model, which is still in production today, despite the fact that the Red Ryder comic strip was canceled in 1963. These simple smoothbore, spring-air BB guns fire at low velocities, and are marketed to children ages 10 and over.
Maybelline or Maybelline New York is an American multinational cosmetics, skin care, fragrance, and personal care company, based in New York City. It was founded in Chicago in 1914, and has been a subsidiary of French cosmetics company L'Oréal since 1996.
A jackboot is a military boot such as the cavalry jackboot or the hobnailed jackboot. The hobnailed jackboot has a different design and function from the first type. It is a combat boot that is designed for marching. It rises to mid-calf or higher with no laces and usually has a leather sole with hobnails. Jackboots have been associated with totalitarianism, as they were worn by German military and paramilitary forces during the Second World War.
Magic: The Gathering is a tabletop and digital collectible card game created by Richard Garfield. Released in 1993 by Wizards of the Coast. It rocks.
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