THE REASON I LEFT MY VOCATION
An
argument
over the ethics of drinking. One against Three. One shows pictures of
military life. He will return to the service. Pastor hammers in the
closet. He has torn up the floor. He chips away at the ceiling. Baby
teethes on neckties beneath dress clothes, and I am to watch her. I
change shirts while she disappears. No one answers my Where is Baby, so
I tell Pastor No More Pounding and Water is Leaking from the Ceiling. I
cram under the torn floor and crawl until I find legs stuffed between
beams like to insulate. I tug them out and cradle a limp, cloth doll,
and when I tickle its ribs, it shivers like a machine. I keep
searching. Pastor says I was to watch her. Correct me if I am wrong.
HAD I KNOWN THIS WOULD HAPPEN,
I NEVER WOULD HAVE BOUGHT HIM
My
tarantula
jigs on McTiles. Many compare his performance to Hendrix. My wife
slides into our booth, distracting me enough for my spider to skitter
out of sight. We scan the dining room and worry about a performance
like this, its consequences.
- - -
Devin Bustin
plays six-string guitar in a band called Asher Lev.
This is
often not true because by the end of his concerts,
his
six-string is a five-string
or even a four-string. He studies sentences at the
School of
the Art Institute of Chicago. Although he grew up in Canada, he now
lives in an apartment overlooking a parking lot in Wheaton,
Illinois.
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