Bad Jobs #1

so, so, so very sober ‘til then, lemmetellya. That changed in a matter of weeks.

As I recall, I tried smoking pot one time, and alluva sudden it was everyday all day. I dropped acid for the first time (“You sure you’ve done this before?”...”Oh yeah, yeah”) and, a few weeks after that, I ate it everyday for three months. I discovered Dexy and became willing to pop as many pills as possible on a seemingly never-ending spree of candy-flipping, key bumps, getting nice (meaning right and precise and uptight) hitting hotknives, getting hurt, hot-boxing my tiny Toyota Corolla hatchback and running the rest of the gamut of dope fiend, etc.

I followed a friend to Little Rock, where we both moved into a 5