32. what a drag - Sick Sacraments
32. what a drag A guy has got to make a living in the free world and that means capital. Denver Griess went over for the umpteenth time the events of the day past, trying to make some sense of it all. He had a thing or two to work out in his head before he could rest his soul. He was at home heating up his second cup of coffee from the pot he had made the night before. It was time to conserve. Time to revert back to a way of life he had once known. Eating rice and beans was a small price to pay for freedom. He would wash his dirty clothes by hand in the bathtub with the help of one of those new and powerful laundry pollutants his mother had given him instead of going to the neighborhood Laundromat. He would show up at dinnertime at friends and get himself invited in order to keep the wolf at bay. “Let the Goddess provide.” He said, lighting a half-smoked joint he had found in the ashtray and sitting down in his...