Simple Simon by William Poe

Author:William Poe [Poe, William]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781477624999
Publisher: Createspace
Published: 2013-09-07T22:00:00+00:00

I thought I might volunteer for dishwashing duty, but somebody else had beat me to it. The cook, an old sea biscuit who violated every health code in the book, chewed on the butt of cigar as he stirred a roiling vat of stew.

My attraction to Joshua was as fraught with peril as my desire to do drugs, and I had to avoid him. Thad was the real deal—a companion and a lover. And yet, I longed for a sexual experience without the complications of love. I slipped out the back door, where a game of basketball was under way, and headed toward the picnic table by the cottonwoods. On the way, I passed the recreation room window and saw Joshua, still shirtless, talking to an old man who had just come into rehab.

From the picnic table, I spotted a riverboat called the Belle of Arkansas. It advanced in front of the Delta Queen, a much larger vessel from Memphis. The traditional rivals raced once a year and had just made it to Little Rock for this year’s event. I went to the edge of the road to watch them dock across the river. As they came into port, waves from the side paddle wheel of the Delta Queen rocked the smaller Belle of Arkansas, stalling its rear-mounted wheel and nearly running it aground.

I stretched out on the picnic table and tried to unwind. The clouds sped by unnaturally fast. The sight made me laugh, thinking how I had once given credence to the notion that the new Messiah would appear on the “clouds of Heaven” and how that had struck me when I saw Reverend Moon’s airplane disappearing into the clouds over Little Rock. It seemed a lifetime ago, and yet, writing about those times, they could have happened yesterday.

Eventually, I gave up trying to relax and sneaked upstairs. Retrieving a notepad from the drawer beside my bunk, I figured I might as well spend the time writing. I went back to the picnic table, but every passing car distracted me as I anticipated the arrival of Vivian and Thad.

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