Scarred for a lifetime so that I can never forget. A line for Dornan Ross and a line for each of his six older sons. And I’ll see the marks they branded on my right hip – seven horizontal lines, each stacked on top of each other, made by casting the blunt edge of a butcher’s knife into fire and then pressing it into my flesh. My truth.Īnd I’ll get home from my dead-end job in this dead-end fucking town in the asshole of Nebraska, and I’ll have almost made it through a whole day of not thinking about it, about my father and Dornan Ross and his sons.īut then I’ll do something without thinking, like undress to go to bed, or slide under the covers of my bed. Sometimes, a whole day will pass, and it’ll be there, under the surface, burning my insides with the brutality of its truth. Sometimes I don’t think about it for hours at a time. Any resemblance it bears to reality is entirely coincidental.Ĭonfucius said, “Before embarking upon a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”
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